Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Madame Swetchine

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Sissela Bok

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
Henry A. Wallace

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Bodhidharma