A Quote by Sidney Jourard

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Sidney Jourard

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Sidney Jourard
Canadian - Psychologist
January 21, 1926 - December 2, 1974

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

Matthew Henry

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

Tim Cook

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

Leo Tolstoy

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

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

Eric Hoffer

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

J. C. Ryle

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Agatha Christie

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

Cesare Borgia

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Mark Twain

There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.

Herman Melville

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

Stephen Covey

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