Top 44 Do Not Deceive Yourself Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Do Not Deceive Yourself

#1. Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

#2. You don't want to die? Then seek the solution in science because there is no spiritual solution for this problem! Do not deceive yourself with spirituality! You means your conscious and to keep your conscious alive you must find some biological/physical solutions, not spiritual ones!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Do not deceive yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.

Jane Austen

#5. Do not deceive yourself, Gawain. There are black places in the heart of every man.

Suzannah Rowntree

#6. The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

Mahatma Gandhi

#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

#10. I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

George Eliot

#11. It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman deduced, because a perfect God would never wish to deceive us. Nothing has been explicable since.

Tim Parks

#12. Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.

Moshe Katsav

#13. I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

Camille Claudel

#14. Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

Emily Gould

#15. The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

Ivan Panin

#16. Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results - especially the American taxpayer.

John Shimkus

#17. And therefore ought each of us to give heed concerning trials and temptations, and watch unto prayer, lest the devil find occasion to deceive; for he never sleepeth, but goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Thomas A Kempis

#18. There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.

Herman Melville

#19. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
It is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other.
~Empress Irene~

Kris Waldherr

#20. One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

Vernon Howard

#21. If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

Dalai Lama

#22. It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Benjamin Franklin

#23. Even good people are obliged to deceive.

Greg LeMond

#24. James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!

Johan Oscar Smith

#25. There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.

Thomas Hoby

#26. There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

Mary Schapiro

#27. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#28. Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

R.D. Laing

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

Jean De La Bruyere

#30. You can't deceive your own mother. That's the one person, the only one, to whom you will always be transparent.

Alexander McCall Smith

#31. Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#32. We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? ... All will end in death, all!

Leo Tolstoy

#34. A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

Jean De La Bruyere

#35. We cannot separate doubt from deception. Doubt robs a man of his confidence; it is a fearful thing. Offer him deception to restore that confidence and he will embrace the falsehood for the comfort it brings. If you would deceive, begin with doubt.

D.A. Blankinship

#36. The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.

Thomas Adams

#37. Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

Abu Bakr

#38. The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Charles Stanley

#39. People of the middle sort like us, thinking people that is, are always tongue-tied and awkward. What is the reason of it? Whether it is the lack of public interest, or whether it is we are so honest we don't want to deceive one another.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky