Adam Brody Quotes

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

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.'

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.

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

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

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

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

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

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

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

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

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.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

People deny things that are true all the time.