I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end. — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Isaiah’s final announcement was that their confidence that God would not judge them was a delusion (Isa. 28:21–29). “But God defended” — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.’ ‘Oh, there is,’ said Susan. ‘Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special—otherwise “special” wouldn’t mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking,… — Tim Urban Copy Share Image
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
“That’s how we both got committed to this enormous delusion—because that’s what it is, an enormous, obscene delusion—this idea that people have… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army?… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and… — Octave Feuillet Copy Share Image
Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves. — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“It all makes more sense when I'm out here alone," he smiled. "I can talk myself into anything.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You have to have a level of delusion to think, I can really sustain myself pretending to be other people. — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss. — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. — Hakuun Yasutani Copy Share Image
Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
![“Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs…” quote by Louisa May Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c55/louisa-may-alcott-318_book_education-is-not-confined-to-books-and-t_776342.jpg)
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