Best Fooling Yourself Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Pathological liars lie most often to themselves about their ability to fool others. They think they're geniuses at it when most people see through their constant deceit in a split second. Yet their brittle egos and lack of self-awareness (the reasons they lie in the first place) prevent them from noticing they're bad liars. Thus, they never learn, progress, and become better people.”

Lies Deceit Liars Falsehood Lie Fooling Yourself Pathological Liar Pathological Lying Pathological Liars

Author:Stewart Stafford

“Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin’ a lie to his son from his death bed. What’s the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?”

Son Old Age Old Man Lie Old Liar Death Bed Fooling Yourself Fool Yourself

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.”

World Actors Audience Stage Pride Ego Fake Liars Curtains Performance Award Fooling Yourself Decieve Thinking Your Better

Author:Anthony Liccione

“If you have to use the words, “deep down” all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.”

Words Deep Fooling Yourself

Book:What a Boy Wants

Source: What a Boy Wants

“It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.”

Illusion Lie Fooling Yourself

Book:Age of Swords

Source: Age of Swords

“As long as he fought imaginary giants, Don Quixote was just play-acting. However once he actually kills someone, he will cling to his fantasies for all he is worth, because only they give meaning to his tragic misdeed. Paradoxically, the more sacrifices we make for an imaginary story, the more tenaciously we hold on to it, because we desperately want to give meaning to those sacrifices and to the suffering we have caused.”

Fantasies Don Quixote Fooling Yourself Sunk Cost Fallacy

Book:Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

Source: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull”

Shock Foolishness Fools Ambush Surprises Fooling Yourself Not Living Unpreparedness

Book:Undressed To The Nines

Source: Undressed To The Nines

“Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.”

Wisdom Mistake Wise Errors Foolish Fools Fooling Yourself Foolery Blunder Wisdom Of Winners

Book:The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“She thought: I love him. Like telling herself something and hoping she believed it.”

Love Like Fooling Yourself

Book:Life on the Preservation

Source: Life on the Preservation

“If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.”

Ifs Thinking Realizing Results Listening Letting Go Social Media Yield Fooling Yourself

Author:Charlene Li

“You are fooling yourself whenever you think you are productive just because you have worked fourteen hours in a day. You will be truly productive when you do the same amount of work in four hours, and take the other ten hours to enjoy the good things life has to offer.”

Thinking Inspirational Enjoy Hours Four Amount Offers Ten Good Things Productive Fourteen Fooling Yourself

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you're in trouble and things aren't flowing the way they should. It's a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.”

Way Should Ends Use Results Acting Trouble Technique End Results Fooling Yourself

Author:Richard Gere

“There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.”

World Way Evil Amount Horror Ultimate Believer Consistent Loving God True Believer Rationalize Fooling Yourself

Author:Jerry A. Coyne

“Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.”

Jobs Figures Scientist Fooling Yourself

Author:Saul Perlmutter

“Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.”

Funny Fool Kissing Dating Fooled Kissing You Kissing Funny Fooling Yourself

Author:Joey Adams

“You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.”

Ifs Thinking Want Blame Who You Are Life Changing Changing Your Life Changing My Life Blaming Others Life Is Changing My Life Is Changing Changing My Ways Fooling Yourself

Author:John Spence

“If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.”

Ifs Thinking World Fairs Life Changing Lions Expecting Changing Your Life Changing My Life Life Is Changing My Life Is Changing Changing My Ways Fooling Yourself

Author:John Spence

“The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.”

Powerful Ethos Fooling Yourself

Author:Charlie Munger

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

Firsts Persons Science Belief Principles Fool Scientist Physics Clever Love Life Ironic Jogging Fooling Yourself

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman