“What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Some problems are obstacle illusions. They're not really as big as they seem. — Itsme867 Copy Share Image
“Human locks? Please," Tamani said. "May as well leave the door open.” — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Our sweet illusions are half of them conscious illusions, like effects of colour that we know to be made up of tinsel,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and… — Anatoli Granovsky Copy Share Image
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Perhaps she thought, this was the way everything in America actually was- all smoke and mirrors, with only illusions of grandeur.” — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“The real apocalypse isn’t planetary extinction or divine vengeance—it’s the unmasking of the illusions that have governed us.” — Paule Patterson Copy Share Image
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“He died, as the Spanish phrase has it, full of illusions. He had not had time in his life to lose any… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same… — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
“The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Illusions... or real illusions. Within the illusions hide real illusions... from the real illusions, the illusions are created. Within the truth hides… — Akira Amano Copy Share Image
“Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote… — John Gray Copy Share Image
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality. What’s real to you is what you imagine and what you feel. If… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“In one of these tales, ‘The Ascetic’, the title character tells his interlocutor that paradises and nirvanas are ‘illusions inside other illusions.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“We are all of us, to some degree or another, brain-washed by the society we live in. We are able to see… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error,… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share Image
“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore,… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion’s den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Hearing may make shorter intuitive leaps than sight, but it too is subject to illusions. The most pleasant of these are 'mondegreens,'… — Michael Kaplan Copy Share Image
