Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Deception

Quotes about: Deception

• 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 ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book VI, Chapter 21), circa 170.

• If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Ignorance, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.95, Penguin UK

• No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Self, Deception

• If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Home, Ignorance, Dark

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (21), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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