“The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.”
The Disowned (1828), Chapter xlii.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton31
English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician 1803–1873Related quotes
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non ingannare mai una persona corretta. Una persona corretta, quando la inganni può diventare peggiore di una persona scorretta.
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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
" Cargo Cult Science http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm", adapted from a 1974 Caltech commencement address; also published in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, p. 343 <br class="br">Variant: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
Démosthenés (-384–-322 BC) ancient greek statesman and orator
Third Olynthiac http://books.google.com/books?id=n4INAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;the+easiest+thing+in+the+world+is+self-deceit+for+every+man+believes+what+he+wishes+though+the+reality+is+often+different&quot;&pg=PA57#v=onepage, section 19 (349 BC), as translated by Charles Rann Kennedy (1852) <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. <br class="br">As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 255 <br class="br">There is nothing easier than self-delusion. Since what man desires, is the first thing he believes.
“Appearances can easily deceive anyone except a blind person.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“To write is to read one's own self”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
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