“If you're brave enough to follow truth it will shatter you and your illusions at the same time.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream, you manufacture illusions!” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
“...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.” — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually… — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I had learned many times that the more you try to get people to deny their illusions, the stronger the illusions can… — Phillip DePoy Copy Share Image
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
“All is illusion; nothing is real. There are no true windows or halls. The doors are not there and they can't hold… — L. S. Hartfield Copy Share Image
“The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“And to what degree does the young woman invent the man she marries? She often sees in him possibilities that no one… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Back when I was single and Guns were on the 'Illusions' tour, chicks were, like, left and right. They were falling over… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learn how to misdirect attention. And no matter how close you get to… — Alexie Sherman Copy Share Image
“With very few exceptions I have never remained in mutual favor very long with people I have known well. They very quickly… — Thomas Cullinan Copy Share Image
“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it? — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
“Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.” — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions. — William John Locke Copy Share Image
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.” — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“I don't want to believe in illusions anymore. I see the world for what it is.” — J. R. Thornton Copy Share Image
