Self Deception Quotes

"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true" "It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident" "The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in" "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves " "There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion" "It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept" "We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage" "If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion." "To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity." "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free" "Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others" "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world and he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true" "Delusion is important to success." "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself." "In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant" "None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not" "A fool grows without rain." "Don't delude yourself into thinking something's working when it's not or you're gonna get fixated on a bad solution" "What is hardest about reality is how much we have to pretend." "Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."