Bill Johnson Quotes

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Even intelligent people succumb to their own propaganda.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

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.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

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

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

You never want to inhale your press clippings.