Joseph Addison Quotes

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most.

[Politicians and political party] leaders themselves, though they originally may have meant nothing but their own aggrandizement, become many of them in time the dupes of their own sophistry, and are as eager for this great reformation as the weakest and foolishest of their followers.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

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

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.