Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion. — Orrin Woodward
Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and… — Patti Stanger
What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion. — Christopher Pike
The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding… — Shelley E. Taylor
Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as… — Charles Kimbrough
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as… — Michael Flanders
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty… — Ralph Thomas Walker
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire… — Bodhidharma
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. — Sheila Ballantyne
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of… — Derek R. Audette
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old… — Wendell Berry
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other… — Clifford Allbutt
Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you… — Frederick Lenz
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion. — Frederick Lenz
None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real.… — Frederick Lenz
Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance. — Frederick Lenz
All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for… — Frederick Lenz
We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of… — Frederick Lenz
At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've… — Frederick Lenz
There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there… — Frederick Lenz
You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's… — Frederick Lenz

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