Delusion Quotes · Page 17

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

— Arthur Smith

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

[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

“It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.’ ‘Oh, there is,’ said Susan. ‘Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility.”

— Terry Pratchett

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

— Louise Erdrich

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

— PZ Myers

“Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up…

— Frederick Lenz

“We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to…

— Stephen McCauley

Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness…

— Bodhidharma

“In an instant he saw the delusion of his five hundred years. He was not looking into a box; he was looking…

— Frances Hardinge

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people…

— Scott Adams

What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by…

— H. R. McMaster

If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith…

— George Whitefield

“Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time…

— Gail Caldwell

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their…

— Shantideva

Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…

— Joseph Story

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“history tells us of the case of a man living under the peculiar delusion that he was a fried egg. Quite how…

— Alain de Botton

“I arrive home with pink flushed cheeks and glittering green-blue eyes. The hardest part is the his smell that lingers on my…

— Elizabeth Heller

I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they…

— Hampton Fancher

Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams…

— Gary Valentine

Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at…

— John Maynard Keynes

“On Make America Great Again: The agenda of a dead body coming back to life. Whenever you have the past (what is…

— Giannina Braschi

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

— Frank Capra

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

— B. Alan Wallace

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

— Jack Kornfield

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

— Rae Foley

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

— Petra Kelly

Is this the life you really want, constant delusion. Your time with me was very fun, there's no illusion.

— Serani

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its…

— Henri Matisse

“You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to…

— Douglas Preston

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

— Ruth Marcus

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at…

— Glenn Reynolds

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that Im somebody else.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

— Anonymous

“Most people grow out of this infantile delusion. Monotheists hold on to it till the day they die.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

— Jim Butcher

“Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“O how we call each other names You call me schizophrenic I call you God But we do agree on one Deluded…

— Sunil Vidyarthi