Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.
We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.
As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.