A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Demosthenes

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Mark Twain

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

Malcolm X

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Herman Melville

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

Theognis of Megara

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.

Seth

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

Immanuel Kant

Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

Dante Alighieri

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here-should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him.

Robert Browning

I learned and it was exactly what I needed [Transcendental Meditation]. The thing that blew me away was that it was the easiest thing I've ever done- not the easiest meditation, but the easiest thing I've ever learned. I learn a lot of things- that's my job! It's so simple to learn, so simple to practice. And the restoration that comes to you, the benefit across your life; it's changed everything.

Cameron Diaz

Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.

R. M. Williams

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

Marjorie Bowen

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Abraham Lincoln

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

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