self deception in English

noun
1
the action or practice of allowing oneself to believe that a false or unvalidated feeling, idea, or situation is true.
Jane remarked on men's capacity for self-deception
noun
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1. Compulsive gamblers are experts at self-deception.

2. 12 Self-deception can easily ensnare us.

3. Such reasoning is a form of self-deception.

4. “Cheating in school is a form of self-deception.

5. (Jeremiah 17:9) Our figurative heart is prone to self-justification and self-deception.

6. It is a time to put aside all self-deception; it is a time of absolute sublime truth.

7. His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.

8. 8 What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot 

9. The Bible acknowledges the human tendency toward self-deception when it admonishes: “Let him that thinks he is standing beware that he does not fall.” —1 Corinthians 10:12.

10. 27 This experiment is neat because it shows the different gradations of self-deception, all the way up to its purest form, in which people manage to trick themselves hook, line and sinker.

11. 30 If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. Marcus Aurelius