Top 1200 Deceiving Yourself Quotes & Sayings

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.

Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

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

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

Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.

Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled is by denial, by denying the truth of the documents that have leaked. By attempting to show them as fraudulent, as bogus of some sort. There has been a very large disinformation and misinformation effort around this whole area. And one must wonder, how better to hide something out in the open than just to say, 'It isn't there. You're deceiving yourself if you think this is true.' And yet, there it is right in front of you.

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

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.

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

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

Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

Looks can be deceiving.

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

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Appearances may be deceiving.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

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

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

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

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

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

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

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.

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

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'

Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

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

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

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.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

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?

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

Appearances are deceiving.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

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

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

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