Top 24 Deceiving Oneself Quotes
#1. To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
Elspeth Huxley
#2. Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.
Wes Fesler
#3. Love of Truth is one of the strongest motives for replacing what really happens by a streamlined account or, to express it in a less polite manner
love of truth is one of the strongest motives for deceiving oneself and others.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
#4. In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.
Oscar Wilde
#6. It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
#7. I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.
Neel Mukherjee
#9. you always write about individualism vs. community, and that you see independence as stupidity and instead celebrate dependency.
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.
Michael Gazzaniga
#12. One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is - which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella,- is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. The world's full of details, have you noticed? And since no detail is ever repeated in exactly the same shape and always sets off other details, there's no end to it.
Fred Vargas
#14. Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.
Charles Handy
#15. Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.
Marty Sklar
#16. I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.
Dave Grohl
#17. Can you really cook meth in a hotel coffeepot?" - Cassel
"Sure," Jones says, looking into his cup thoughtfully.
Guess Mom was right about one thing.
Holly Black
#18. To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.
Gordon Brown
#19. I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. ~ Emma
Rebecca Donovan
#20. A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.
Shia Labeouf
#21. I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
Amy Tan
#22. Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
Mikhail Tal
#23. There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.
Johnny Vegas
#24. My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things ...
Sebastiao Salgado
