8 Self-Deception Quotes for You to Enjoy

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust

School Cheating Else Ourselves Someone Scholarship Cheat Self-Deception Learn Go Efforts Form Coast

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. Robin Marantz Henig

Exaggeration Words Denial Language Shade Collusion Count Self-Deception According Different Deception Meaning English English Language Each

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory People Opportunities Filter Our Our Lives Tell Foggy See Rather More Through Obscure Writer Self-Deception Because End Than Happened In The End Which Interested Themselves Lives Actually

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. David Bohm

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available. Sam Harris

Spiritual People Problem Spirituality Elsewhere Consider Synonymous Fraud Atheists Seem Mental Mental Illness Only Mystical Argued Mysticism Had Self-Deception Talk Terms Fellow Because Experiences Which Available Many Illness Conscious Millions Millions Of People

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects. Sam Harris

Trust Strange Tend Between Journalists Self-Deception Subjects Grow Bonds