Most people hold onto what could happen instead of what's really happening. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. Think of it as only 1 year older than 59 Go ahead,… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Go on down to the local palm reader, she'll spit out exactly what you feed her because honey, you already knew your… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment. — Dalai Lama 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
There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else. — Chuck Hillig 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
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and… — Robert Walpole 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
My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
“But can thought wake you from the dream of existence? Not if it becomes a second realm of confusion, another more complicated… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“we shouldn’t surrender our real world perception to a false reality too much or we may suffer the inevitable consequences of deluded… — M.P. Neary Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
“I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood,… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I… — John Gower Copy Share Image
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
