Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

I noticed again, too, that he can tell a lie with as straight a face as any man. Probably some of the lies are not lies to him because he believes fanatically the words he is saying.

Many, many people exaggerate their accomplishments, blame their failures on others, and misrepresent reality in order to make themselves look better. This behavior is ubiquitous—sometimes intentional, more often subconscious. In ordinary life, we tolerate it, mutely or not, hoping that we are not as bad as the person whose lies we are listening to.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

Sometimes it is necessary to make things clearer than the truth.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion and opinion brings on substance.

Words, as is well known, are the greatest foes of reality.

Sometimes hyperbole and lying are not easily distinguishable [in politics].

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Films are about lies. They're about making things look glamorous.

I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

You're a legend in your own mind.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.