Deceiving Yourself Quotes:

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

source: "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.

topic: Deception, Investing, Deceiving, Deceiving Yourself, Self Deception

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!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Life, Other Worlds, Illusion, Deceiving Yourself, Endless Life

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 willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Self Esteem, Feelings, Deceiving Yourself, Human Potential

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

- Bodhidharma

topic: Real, Hype, Long, Deceiving Yourself

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

- George Holyoake

topic: Believe, Atheism, Soccer Player, Deceiving Yourself, Preventive War

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?

- Bodhidharma

topic: Karma, Believe, Fall, Deceiving Yourself, Blind People

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!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Ocean, Clouds, Darkness, Deceiving Yourself, Above The Clouds

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

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Reality, Deceiving, Deceiving Yourself

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.

- Edgar Mitchell

topic: Thinking, Government, Effort, Flying Saucers, Deceiving Yourself