User:Conservative/Quotes

Truth

"So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." - John 8:31-32

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." - C. S. Lewis

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill

Self - deception

"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." - Francis Bacon

"The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others." - François de La Rochefoucauld

"You can have no greater or lesser dominion than the one over yourself. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Personal dishonesty is not needed to produce a dishonest business plan or research proposal. Wishful thinking suffices." - John McCarthy

"To imagine that turmoil is in the past and somehow we are now in a more stable time seems to be a psychological need." - Eldridge M. Moores