Orson Scott Card Quotes

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

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.

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

People deny things that are true all the time.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.

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

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

I know my lies are always wishes.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

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

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

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

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

Most people like to live in illusions.

…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?