Top 1200 Deceiving Ourselves Quotes & Sayings

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

Appearances are often deceiving.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.

Appearances are deceiving.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.

When we close ourselves off, we're not just closing ourselves off to other people, we're closing ourselves off from ourselves and impeding ourselves. When you open up, you allow yourself to be who you are.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards we set down for ourselves, then maybe we don't have to do that with other people.

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves.

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Appearances may be deceiving.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.

There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the highest standard of living ever attained. Full government control of all activities of the individual is virtually the goal of both national parties.

And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding.

The Internet can be deceiving. Don't believe everything your read. Or you see.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Appearances often are deceiving.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Looks can be deceiving.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.