Michael Crichton Quotes

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

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

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

A form of self-delusion.

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

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

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

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

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

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

Nothing is easier than self-deceit, since what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

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.

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

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.