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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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#2

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― Andr茅 Malraux

tags: deception, hiding, lies, man, secrets, self-awareness

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#3

“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

tags: behavior, history, psychology, self-deception

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#4

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception

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#5

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

tags: belief, books, narrowmindedness, reading, self-deception, self-limiting-beliefs, vision

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#6

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works

tags: fear, liars, self-deception

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#7

“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: lies, lying, self-deception

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#8

“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

tags: lies, lying-to-ourselves, self-deception, telling-lies

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#9

“I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: action, afraid, burning, confusion, destruction, fear, fire, forest, inner-peace, insensibility, laziness, peace, pretend, self-deception

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