Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.-- Demosthenes (B.C. 384-322)
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman (1918 &endash; 1988)
We are never deceived: we deceive ourselves.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
Fulke Greville (1554-1628) In "Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips," MCR software, 1995.
The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.--La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678], Maxim 127
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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