Self Deceit Quotes

“When we have the knack for listening to ourselves and hearing ourselves out without flinching, we can throw down willful deafness and self-deceit and meet up with our authentic selves. (“Like a frozen image“)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Lie long enough and eventually you'll believe yourself.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Here's to love at first sight, and here's to getting over it the moment you blink.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“If you don’t want to deceive yourself in this new year, don’t be a miracle chaser”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.”
― Luther Burbank

“The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

“Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“If you don’t want to live in self-deceit in a new year, miracle must not be your focus”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don’t know who we are in reality”
― Sunday Adelaja

“While facts do kill ignorance, ignoring facts does not kill them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consideration into her life choices, but both sisters wound up equally mired in their own bullshit. Celine's decision-making required more cognitive energy, but not necessarily more thought.”
― Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

“No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work.

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― John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

“Alle bedro seg selv, og ingen ville innrømme det. Men da jeg visste dette og innrømmet at sikkerlig jeg også bedro meg selv, så var altså jeg iallfall ingen selvbedrager.”
― Sigurd Hoel

“You said you have a soul, you deceived yourself; you said there was life after death, you deceived yourself; you followed the priest, you followed the imam, you followed the rabbi, you ran after the gurus, you always deceived yourself! You betrayed yourself and humanity for not understanding the truth! And what's left in your hand in the end? A fake happiness and perishment!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness.”
― Szandor LaVey

“A regular sheep would rather choose a wolf in a sheep's clothing over sheep that tells the truth. A lie suits better one's self-deceit.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Those do not commonly know themselves best who think best of themselves”
― Matthew Henry, 1 Corinthians - Bible Commentary

“तुझसे उम्मीद लगाकर सबसे बड़ा धोखा हमने अपने आप के साथ किया, तो तुझसे शिकायत कैसी।”
― Malar