Self Deception Quotes

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others" "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world and he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true" "Delusion is important to success." "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself." "In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant" "None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not" "A fool grows without rain." "Don't delude yourself into thinking something's working when it's not or you're gonna get fixated on a bad solution" "What is hardest about reality is how much we have to pretend." "Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it." "People want to protect their own hypocrisy; they know they have lied and manipulated, but they frame their beliefs as science." "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see" "We lie best when we lie to ourselves" "The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff"