The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. — Claude Steiner Copy Share Image
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what you have, if you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have… — Michael Mewshaw Copy Share Image
“When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Every time I think I’m getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Forms of energy from nature gave my father trouble. He refused to believe he was going to die. He had these weird… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
“As long as people want the Mormon Church to be true, more than they are willing to face the possibility that it… — Jim Whitefield Copy Share Image
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
“There is never a moment where I find Trump persuasive. When I look at him I see a man without any inner… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines delusion as “a false conception and persistent belief unconquerable by reason in something that has no… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“The single most important thing [you can do] is to shift [your] internal stance from "I understand" to "Help me understand." Everything… — Douglas Stone Copy Share Image
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic view and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.” — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get to wondering if I really can write or if I'm just being delusional...then I decide it doesn't matter because… — Bea Cannon Copy Share Image
“The reason so many people are unhappy is, for the most part, delusion. They believe the predominant myths that our culture propagates… — Woody Hochswender Copy Share Image
![“The single most important thing [you can do] is to shift [your] internal stance from "I understand" to "Help me understand." Everything else follows from that. . . . Remind yourself that if you think you already understand how someone feels or what they are trying to say, it is a delusion…” quote by Douglas Stone](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8b4/douglas-stone-35730_delusion_the-single-most-important-thing-you-can_3144700.jpg)
