Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

I know my lies are always wishes.

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy's balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

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

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

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.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.