Illusion Quotes · Page 104

I am under no illusion that yoga is the solution to all issues! That's why I am a very open-minded yogi.

— Mandy Ingber

“A bad magician never gets the good props.”

— Amit Kalantri

We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting…

— Yukio Mishima

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

— James Jones

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the…

— C. S. Lewis

I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice,…

— Graham Greene

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working…

— Tamora Pierce

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

— Saul Alinsky

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

— Valerie Harper

I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production…

— E. F. Schumacher

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”

— Woody Allen

“I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.”

— Ravindra Shukla

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

— Lisa Genova

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,…

— Henry Miller

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate…

— Jonathan Lethem

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

— Gautama Buddha

I believe that the mutual fund industry's biggest shortcoming is too much focus on the momentary price of a stock - an…

— John C. Bogle

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

— Marlene Dietrich

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence…

— Blaise Pascal

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

— Rush Limbaugh

Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life…

— Richard Herring

“You're absolutely insane, that much I'm certain of, but it's one of the many things I love about you.”

— Ashley Beale

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going…

— Anonymous

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in…

— Amy Tan