Quotes about Self deception

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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyon — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. — S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential. — Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or ano — Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is meI believe in my dance-- And my destiny — Sam Shepard
The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction. — Ahmed Mostafa
Ignorance leads to leaving in self-deception. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be — John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty ma — Criss Jami
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the — Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. — Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works
I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cas — Criss Jami, Killosophy
No matter how crazy or hard a man acts sometimes he has a soft side. — Auliq-Ice
Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a — Elizabeth Gaskell, My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories
Here's to love at first sight, and here's to getting over it the moment you blink. — Ahmed Mostafa