The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
As an actor I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.
Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market which pools all the information than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.
I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.
I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.
Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.
Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.
Sex and children are the two things that delude logic the most in this society.
Even when Krishna gives you strength maya will delude you to think it is your strength.
When your parents split up it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.
I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end...
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
Any titles money or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.
The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic unfortunately can delude both others and himself.
It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.
I think looking at your own life on- and offscreen you can motivate anything or you can delude yourself into anything.
Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking "Yes it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world.
Dreams dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself but you can't re-create what's over.
If we say something often enough we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.
Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen.
Love is rarely flawless " Carter pointed out. "Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.
Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.
No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life the tragedy the rot the separation the sadness!
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.
This sounds so bleak when I say it but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.
In the modern world nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.
In most cases energy is lost in little games of manipulation in little struggles of will in the attempts to possess others to wrap them up to delude them to shine them on.
Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.