A Quote by R. D. Laing

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

R. D. Laing

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R. D. Laing
Scottish - Psychologist
October 7, 1927 - August 23, 1989

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Matthew Henry

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

Tim Cook

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

Peter Orner

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Jeanette Winterson

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

John Twelve Hawks

even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing me as a rock. Or is it I who deceive them and pretend that I am a rock when I am a river?

Nina Berberova

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

Austin O'Malley

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Thomas a Kempis

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.