Lying To Oneself Quotes

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you worked hard enough. You can try to lie to yourself. You can try to tell yourself that you put in the time. But you know - and so do I.

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.

Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.