Sarah Pinborough Quotes

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.

Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy's balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

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

I know my lies are always wishes.

I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.