Sentence examples for we deceive from inspiring English sources

To marry these two general findings - that we are sensitive and attentive to information in our environment and that we are adept self-deceivers - Trivers proposes, 'we deceive ourselves the better to deceive others' (p. 3).

Here's another way we deceive ourselves.

"The ninety-eight per cent of us, we deceive ourselves.

We deceive ourselves when we say that we have press.

"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves," Goethe wrote.

We don't deceive ourselves only about distances; we deceive ourselves about locations too.

Are we deceiving ourselves with aesthetic justifications for sexism?

The only people we deceived were the North Korean government".

"The only people we deceived," he said of the documentary, "was the North Korean government.

"In order to achieve happiness, are we deceiving ourselves?" he asks.

The key is that we self-deceive: we don't realize we are taking advantage of the duality of our actions.