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At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.

At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true.
– Cortney S Warren

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  1. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true. – Cortney S Warren
  2. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true. – Cortney S Warren
  3. Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others. – Cortney S Warren
  4. One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves. – Cortney S Warren
  5. I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others. – Iain Banks
  6. Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
  7. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false. – Criss Jami
  8. The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves. – Bill W
  9. In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not. – Cortney S Warren
  10. The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality. – Cortney S Warren
  11. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
  12. Art is a deception that creates real emotions – a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. – Marco Tempest
  13. Move what you can do at level one when you get to level one. When you get to level two, you need a bigger power to move it! – Israelmore Ayivor
  14. We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change. – Cortney S Warren
  15. Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else. – Cortney S Warren
  16. When you are not aware that you are bringing old learning to your current relationships, you will want to lie about where it is coming from. – Cortney S Warren
  17. We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold. – Cortney S Warren
  18. Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll. – Willard Van Orman Quine
  19. The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. – Nora Ephron
  20. There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap – Kirtida Gautam
  21. When we buy books we’re fooling ourselves into thinking we buy the time to read them. – Gerard VanDerleun
  22. Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence. – Billy Graham
  23. It’s ego -“ the false self -“ that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true. – Jed McKenna
  24. What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. – George Eliot
  25. At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment. – Bryant McGill
  26. Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it. – Richard Matturro
  27. Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief. – Debasish Mridha
  28. Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  29. If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders! – Israelmore Ayivor
  30. The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion. – Errol Anthony Smythe
  31. You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  32. Here’s how to create an inspired vision for your life: Change the scope of your thinking from seeing is believing to believing is seeing. – DeWayne Owens
  33. There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing. – Neale Donald Walsch
  34. Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure. – Terry Pratchett
  35. Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing. – Eric Weiner
  36. Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. – Adam Phillips
  37. Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves. – Terry Brooks
  38. It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness. – Debasish Mridha
  39. The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble – Toni Sorenson
  40. Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value. – Rob Liano

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