Delusions Quotes

158 quotes by 129 authors

Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts,… — Bodhidharma
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here. — Philip Freneau
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra
I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur. — El-P
I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored. — El-P
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble… — Criss Jami
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth,… — Charles Dickens
I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always… — John Hawkes
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big… — James Hillman
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. — A. E. Housman
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of… — Charles Kuralt
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act… — H. L. Mencken
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched… — Alan Moore
I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training. — Chris Pratt
As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of… — Dan Rather
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. — Thomas Reed
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. — Adrienne Rich
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith

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