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Fooling Ourselves Quotes

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others. Iain Banks
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. David D. Burns
We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally. John Blair
People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we’ve fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter. Seth Godin
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on. Haruki Murakami
Why we should believe in wolf children seems somehow easier to understand than the ways we distinguish between what is human and what is animal behavior. In making such distinctions we run the risk of fooling ourselves completely. We assume that the animal is entirely comprehensible and, as Henry Beston has said, has taken form on a plane beneath the one we occupy. It seems to me that this is a sure way to miss the animal and to see, instead, only another reflection of our own ideas. Barry Lopez
Richard P. Feynman quote: "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling..."
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. Richard P. Feynman
Stephen King quote: "We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living."
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living. Stephen King
As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls? Greta Van Susteren
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. Saul Williams
Franz Beckenbauer quote: "We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's..."
We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more. Franz Beckenbauer
We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little. Luigi Pirandello
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie."Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."(This guy must have written a long time ago.) William Shakespeare
Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are... Graham Greene
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless. Bruce Sterling

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