I reject your reality, and substitute my own.
~ Mythbusters’ Adam Savage after adding his percentages to 120%
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, we readily believe.
~ Demosthenes, in Third Olynthiac
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
~ Benjamin Franklin
A lie that is accepted as truth, will affect your life as if it is true, even though it’s a lie.
~ Bill Ewing
It is as easy to deceive one’s self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out.”
~ La Rochefoucauld
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
~ La Rochefoucauld
You can fool yourself, you know. You’d think it’s impossible, but it turns out it’s the easiest thing of all.
~ Jodi Picault
To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them. They dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our attention till the light of God is focused upon them. The grosser manifestations of these sins, egotism, exhibitionism, self-promotion, are strangely tolerated in Christian leaders even in circles of impeccable orthodoxy. They are so much in evidence as actually, form any people, to become identified with the gospel. I trust it is not a cynical observation to say that they appear these days to be a requisite for popularity in some sections of the Church visible. Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
~ A.W. Tozer, in The Pursuit of God, Chapter 3 – Removing the Veil
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