Delusion Quote by Calvin Coolidge

“It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and…

— Calvin Coolidge

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

— Calvin Coolidge

“If men had not this delusion as to the ultra-importance of their own particular employments, I suppose that they would sit down and kill…

— Rudyard Kipling

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one…

— Bertrand Russell

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

— Thomas Carlyle

If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks the god…

— John F. Kennedy

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his…

— Demosthenes

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated…

— Luc de Clapiers

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances…

— Abigail McCarthy

Self-made men often worship their creator.

— Bryant H. McGill

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that…

— Joseph Addison

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him .…

— Henry David Thoreau