self-deception

is essential to being persuasive. When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. Mark Twain

is as easy to do unknowiningly as it is to deceive others.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is baked into the very nature of language and of thinking. Whenever a man talks he lies, thinking is self-dialogue, so therefore whenever we think we lie.

Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech this thing that they call a social product was made for lying. Miguel de Unamuno

is not only believing what is untrue... it is also not believing what is true.

We can be deceived by believing what is untrue, but we certainly are also deceived by not believing what is true.

is as easy to perpetrate without perceiving it oneself as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is lying to ourselves, and lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoevsky

is man's curse of thinking so intently about what he thinks he is that he overlooks what he indubitably ought to be.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

is lying to yourself and listentening to your own lie such that you cease to be capable of distinguishing the truth within you.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him. Fyodor Dostoevsky

self deception, n.All

self deception