A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something. — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
“Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind’s delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. — Laozi Copy Share Image
In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the stupidest mistake in life is thinking that the person who hurt you won't hurt you again. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. — Walter Wager Copy Share Image
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams 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
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Sure, I would have loved it, if we'd gotten 2,000 screens, but I never had that delusion. I was very realistic. I… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor,… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“No one can make you feel anything you don’t want to feel,” my mother told me once, a complete delusion. He” — Cat Marnell Copy Share Image
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Holy Shit, for some reason people have this absolutely insane delusion that I give a rats ass about what they think of… — Arjun Loveable Copy Share Image
man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his… — Ellen Sturgis Hooper Copy Share Image
I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles… — Gautama Buddha 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)
