“We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.”

““We lie best when we lie to ourselves.””

“To think what we do not feel is to lie to ourselves, in the same way that we lie to others when we say to others what we do not think.”

“I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.”

“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”

“When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.”

“It is the glistening and softly spoken lie; the amiable fallacy; the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politician, the zealous lie of the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend, and the careless lie of each man to himself, that cast that black mystery over humanity, through which we thank any man who pierces, as we would thank one who dug a well in a desert.”

“We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe
that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie
asleep.”

“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.”

“My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.”