58 Quotes About Self-delusion

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know.

Humans see what they want to see.

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others, we are withholding from ourselves.

What can I tell you? Welcome to the human race. You people like to pretend things are simple, even at your own cost.

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.