Quotes About People Who Believe Their Own Lies

#1. I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.

Jane Goodall

#2. Robert Trivers argues, for instance, that people who can believe their own lies turn out to be the best liars of all - and an ability to deceive rivals has obvious advantages in the state of nature.

Sam Harris

#3. People from context cultures tend to view personal bonds and informal agreements as far more binding than any formal contract. People from content cultures don't believe the deal is finalized until everyone has signed on the dotted line. And therein lies the potential for conflict.

Carol Kinsey Goman

#4. You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

John Simm

#5. There are two reasons why we don't trust people, First, we don't know them. Second, we know them.

Anonymous

#6. In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

Terry Goodkind

#7. People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

Zoe Marriott

#8. Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy; their entire delusion lies within the fact that they believe they aren't deluded.

Nenia Campbell

#9. Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Ashwin Sanghi

#10. People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#11. The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Jodi Picoult

#12. The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

Dennis Sharpe

#14. The world is full of ruffians. The world is full of people of good character. Both of these statements are true, I believe, because within most of the people I have known lies the beginning points of both seemingly disparate paths.

R.A. Salvatore

#15. One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

Cal Thomas

#16. Oftentimes it's easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The truth, by its very nature, isn't always so attractive.

Terry Goodkind

#17. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

Orrin Woodward

#18. hierarchies are lies. Because no one needs the alpha. He gets to the top by puffing and bluffing until we all believe he belongs there. When your power is built on ignorance, you don't want people talking to each other.

Isaac Marion

#19. Let's stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let's not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It's just a lie, and we don't have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#20. People believe what they are told.

Jacqueline Carey

#21. But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.

Dick Francis

#22. I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.

Joseph Muscat

#23. Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period.

Ronald Reagan

#24. By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler

#25. his father was right about one thing, at least, when he'd said that lies could run around the world before the truth could get its boots on. And it was amazing how people wanted to believe them.

Terry Pratchett

#26. The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

Dashiell Hammett

#27. The best lies to tell," said Jane, "are the ones people want to believe.

Jasper Fforde

#28. That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.

Yvette Christianse

#29. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Jeff Lindsay

#30. It's not the lies that hurt people. It's the willingness of everyone else to believe them ...
Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds of our citizens and compel them to believe in monstrous lies.

Filipp Golikov

#32. Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.

Robert Jordan