Deceive Quote by Sidney Jourard

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

— Mardy Grothe

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

— Philip Sidney

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-deception helps us deceive.

— David Livingstone

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

— Demosthenes

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have…

— Margaret MacMillan

“Once we comprehend the evolutionary function of deception, we stand better equipped to understand why it happens, when it is likely to happen, and…

— Ptera Hunter

Our eyes are capable of deceiving us. We are even willing sometimes to let ourselves be deceived.

— Frenchqueen

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld