Caroline Miller Quotes

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

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

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

Some people choose not to believe the truth because it disagrees with what they fundamentally want.

Politicians: Some are ignorant; some are not ignorant, but those who are ignorant don't want to know. The psychologists call it denial.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

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

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

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

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

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

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

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

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.