People hold onto the wrong person because they THINK they can CHANGE them into the right person for them. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Her hair looked like her hair in the dream and her eyes looked like her eyes in the dream, and as for… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking. — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
“that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“The hell with this aching, suffering, callow, half-assed delusion that he was in "love" with her. The hell with "love" anyway, and… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the… — David Ulevitch Copy Share Image
Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“And I still believe that there are two basic kinds of people--people who cultivate the narcissistic delusion of being watched at all… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith 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
“There is a moment, when a woman’s foolishness slips into delusion. The former is forgivable, the latter isn’t. You will never live… — Edan Lepucki 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
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. — Hakuun Yasutani Copy Share Image
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fool who knows he is a fool is for that very reason wise. The fool who thinks himself wise is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we… — Adyashanti 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
A self-centered life will have a tendency to confuse its selfish desire with God's will. — Santanu Mishra 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
“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
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen. — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
