Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your… — Stewart Brand 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 delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion. — Ruth Marcus Copy Share Image
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people,… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph,… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core,… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. — Sathya Sai Baba 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
The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Class consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of… — Zadie Smith 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
Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
