Self Delusion Quotes
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History is the lies of the victors,
— Julian Barnes
As with all gut feelings, only time will tell whether this it is pathetic self-delusion.
— Neal Stephenson
One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.
— Harold Holzer
I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.
— John Steinbeck
Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.
— Howard Pyle
Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
— Al Goldstein
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.
— Brandon Sanderson
The human capacity for self-delusion is limitless
— Sarah Fine
The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.
— Shannon L. Alder
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
— T.H. White
Necessity is the mother of self-delusion.
— Hugh Laurie
You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.
— Douglas Preston
Self-Evaluation is healthy and constructive. Denial and self-delusion is DESTRUCTIVE.
— Michelle Cook-Hall
He wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion ...
— John Le Carre
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
— Daniel Day-Lewis
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
— Flannery O'Connor
I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.
— Genevieve Ross
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.
— Stefan Molyneux
Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.
— Margaret Atwood
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
— Alain De Botton
The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.
— Frank Turek
Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness.
— Michael R. Fletcher
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.
— Alexander Theroux
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
— Michael Crichton
I am not holier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest deludes himself.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.
— William Moyers
I believe nothing. Belief is intellectual surrender; "faith" a state of willed self-delusion.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away.
— Jay Michaelson
The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.
— Sophie Kinsella
A form of self-delusion.
— Elbert Hubbard
Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.
— Nick Harkaway
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
— Ronald Reagan
The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.
— Paul Hoffman
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
— Criss Jami
Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.
— Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team
Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
— Douglas Coupland
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
— Stefan Molyneux
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.
— Frederick Lenz
Oh, wait a minute, I was supposed to be cutting back on the self-delusion, wasn't I? Whoops.
— Jason Krumbine
Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.
— Judith Kelman
You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
— Jodi Picoult
Humans see what they want to see.
— Rick Riordan
Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.
— Rafi Zabor
I seek the truth ... it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
— Marcus Aurelius
Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.
— Jack Weatherford
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium
— John Ralston Saul
You must understand the immense power of self-serving delusion." I
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.
— Glenn Reynolds
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
— Daniel S. Greenberg
Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.
— Shannon L. Alder
The vain man does not think he is vain.
— Gilbert Ryle
Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams.
— Robert A. Caro