Top 52 Deceiving Ourselves Quotes

#1. Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Jean De La Bruyere

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#2. Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with untruth, seek truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#3. Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Kofi Abrefa Busia

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#4. Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

Anthony Trollope

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#5. If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

Theodor Herzl

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#6. I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What's the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.

Alex Webb

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#7. Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#8. Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

Blaise Pascal

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#9. I was always a liar. But one thing I failed to realize about being a liar is that you know when you are deceiving someone else, but when you deceive yourself you believe you are telling the truth.

Jack Gantos

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#10. Looks can be deceiving. You can't always tell what's going on inside a person from outside. People put on a brave face when they're trying to get over heartbreak, but that doesn't mean they have.

Alison G. Bailey

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#11. By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way.

Gurcharan Das

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#12. The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

Adrienne Rich

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#13. The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.

Cambria Hebert

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#14. You want to watch him, Julia," he told me. "He may look harmless enough, but appearances can be deceiving." Geoff grinned. "That's slander, that is. You know I always behave like a perfect gentleman." "Right then, Sir Galahad," Iain said dryly.

Susanna Kearsley

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#15. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

Ronaldinho

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#16. If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway - is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?

Patricia Briggs

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#17. Perhaps that's its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances ... " He paused. " ... are often deceiving.

Julie Anne Long

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#18. Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John Lothrop Motley

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#19. Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#20. Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

LeBron James

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#21. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

C. G. Jung

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#22. The streetlights had already lit up on Bronnaya, and a golden moon hung over the Patriarchs. In the ever deceiving lunar light, it appeared to Ivan Nikolayevich that, instead of a cane, the professor stood holding a sword under his arm.

Mikhail Bulgakov

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#23. Our brains are not actually duplex apartments occupied by feuding neighbors, and how we bring about the complicated act of deceiving ourselves remains a mystery.

Kathryn Schulz

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#24. She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.

Margaret Atwood

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#25. They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

Antonio Porchia

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#26. The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

N.K. Jemisin

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#27. Gabito isn't deceiving anyone," she said with an innocent smile, "but sometimes it happens that even God needs to make weeks that are two years long.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#28. Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Blaise Pascal

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#29. Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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#30. I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

Patrick Marber

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#31. It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Blaise Pascal

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#32. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Benjamin Disraeli

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#33. However, become doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning.

Anonymous

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#34. I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Camillo Di Cavour

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#35. By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.

Dalai Lama

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#36. Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. He didn't see anything wrong with that picture. Jacob was a gift from the gods.

Stephenie Meyer

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#37. 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

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#38. From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out.

Belle Malory

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#39. 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

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#40. Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

Carl Jung

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#41. There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Joseph Addison

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#42. I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you.

Michael Finkel

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#43. repentance is sometimes described as "coming to our senses" (see Luke 15:17)- 2 Tim. 2:25-26). It involves a waking up to the fact that we have been deceiving ourselves and that our ideas, attitudes, values, or goals have been wrong.

Ken Sande

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#44. While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Heinrich Heine

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#45. If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

Paul Washer

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#46. We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#47. We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

Vladimir Lenin

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#48. We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.

Vance Havner

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#49. We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Sidney Jourard

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#50. It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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#51. When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something ... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

Joan Didion

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#52. It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

Anatole France

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