“The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.” — Allan Lokos 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
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people.… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
A lot of lunatics who are going to go commit crimes are held in check because of their sense of morality or… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“That pain you feel," Master Blint said almost gently, "is the pain of abandoning a delusion. The delusion is meaning, Kylar. There… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
To sustain a career in show business, you have to have a certain amount of delusion, because it's such an insane way… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Most people hold onto what could happen instead of what's really happening. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image