Best Self Deception Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

“At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is always the same. It has been the same, it is the same, it will be the same. But to say that we know the truth and that we have the truth is really a self-deception. If you had known the absolute truth there would have been no problems and everybody would have said the same thing. There would be no discussions, no arguments, no fights and wars. But when we don't know the absolute truth then we can find out our own mental conceptions as the truth. But this mind is so limited.”

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

“I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”

People Ends Self Opportunity Memories Our Lives Happened Deception Obscure Self Deception Filters

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities”

Men War Lying Nations Conscience Blame Every Man Glad Anti War Antiwar Self Deception Statesmen Soothing Grotesque Falsity War Propaganda

Author:Mark Twain

“Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.”

Men Successful Deception Deceiving Self Deception

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.”

Art Self Deception Hypocrisy Self Deception

Author:Mason Cooley

“We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.”

Self Enemy Treated Deception Betrayed Deceived Self Deception Being Deceived Being Betrayed

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.”

“Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.”

“Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.”

Self Religion Evil Liberty Morality Roots Deception Altruism Self Deception

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.”

War Self Virtue Clear Conscience Committed Certainty Deception Antiwar Shelter Self Deception Abomination Just War Clear Conscience

Author:Alexander Cockburn

“Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.”

Humans Self Human Beings Emotion Talent Deception Self Deception Vastness

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!”

Ifs Want Feels Stills Self Roots Deception Motive Tempted Self Deception

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of their thoughts. The failures of science do not begin with flawed evidence or fumbled statistics; they begin with personal self-deception and an unjustified sense of knowing.”

Looks Self Knowing Humility Research Evidence Scientist Deception Statistics Contemplating Inward Mechanic Flawed Self Deception Experimentation Unjustified Good Science

Book:On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

“The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.”

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

“In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.”

Self Found Mistake Criticism Errors Foolish Cures Deception Just One Remedy Antidote Self Deception Foolish Mistakes

Book:The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?

Source: The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?

“Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.”

Way Self Behinds Vision Century Remains Myth Deception Gross Self Deception Billboards Smugness

Book:Nonconformity: Writing on Writing

Source: Nonconformity: Writing on Writing

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

Men Inspirational Art Spiritual Suffering Community Opinion Society Inspirational Life Deception Deceived Self Deception Renaissance Deceptive Mind Your Own Business Trickery Renaissance Man Mislead Us

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.”

Self Noble Deception Hypocrisy Self Deception

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.”

People Has Beens Self Political Social Interest Religious Behinds Moral Class Promise Victim Foolish Deception Phrases Declaration Self Deception

Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.”

Persons Self Form Deception Fraud Deceived Self Deception

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.”

Needs Self Feelings Pain Greater Self Worth Deception Justify Decency Self Deception Calculus

Author:Carol Tavris

“If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental faith experience-then this would be a much greater miracle than the resurrection itself.”

Ifs Self Would Be Greater Groups Movement Miracle Fundamentals Deception Resurrection Defeated Disciple Self Deception Faith Based

Author:Pinchas Lapide

“He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.”

Love Self God Christian Desire Catholic Misery Saint Christian Inspirational Miserable Deception God Love Deceiving Self Deception Erring Miserable People

Author:Philip Neri

“It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.”

May Art Self Individual Art Is Deception Examination Self Deception

Author:Robert Motherwell

Friendship Technology Demand Creating Illusion Expectations Professors Interaction Expecting Providing Companionship Self Deception Interacting Social Interaction Interacting With Others

Author:Sherry Turkle

“Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.”

Self Lying Ability Accepted Deception Maturity Portions Self Deception

Book:Rite of passage

Source: Rite of passage

“The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception”

Self Capacity Infinite Deception Self Deception

Author:Robert Todd Carroll

“Above all, do not lie to yourself.”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”

Self Fear Worst Deception Self Deception

Book:Plato: With an English Translation

Source: Plato: With an English Translation

“Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.”

Ifs Want Needs Self Deception Clothings Shelter Self Deception Basic Needs

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“Above all, don't lie to yourself.”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

“The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.”

World Self Desire This World Fundamentals Constant Factors Deception Self Deception Hereafter

Book:The First and Last Freedom

Source: The First and Last Freedom

“Self-deception helps us deceive.”

Self Helping Deception Deceiving Self Deception

Author:David Livingstone

“If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.”

People Ifs Writing Self Grew Deception Imaginary Disguise Self Deception Typewriters

Author:William Maxwell

“Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits”

Self Known Limits Capacity Deception Self Deception

Book:Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies (Third Revised Edition)

Source: Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies (Third Revised Edition)

“Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice.”

“Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.”

Self Interest Criticism Response Accepted Deception Japan Hype Self Deception Plight

Author:Paul Samuelson

“How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.”

Stills Self Order Higher Protection Luxury Deception Sincerity Again And Again Rationality Self Deception Falseness

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.”

Men Real Self Able Spirit Path Mankind Development Tragedy Deception Self Deception Tentacles

Book:Alfred Adler: a portrait from life

Source: Alfred Adler: a portrait from life

“Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.”

Self Sometimes Tools Deception Self Deception

Book:act one

Source: act one

“Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.”

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