Terry Brooks Quotes

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.