Self Deception Quotes

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. - Richard Dawkins

The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The curtain is up so youve got to perform. - Jack Kramer

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The heart deceives, because it is never anything but the expression of the minds miscalculations I dont know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the minds frailties. - Marquis De Sade

Take the life...lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. - Henrik Ibsen

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. - Charles C Noble

I feel I am free but I know I am not. - E M Cioran

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. - Edward Frederic Benson

Dont cross the stream to find water. - Norwegian Proverb

Comparing oneself with Galileo or Einstein is certainly good for the ego, provided one refrains from going into too much detail. - John McCarthy