Illusions Quotes

502 Illusions quotes by 369 unique authors

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid… — Steven Pinker
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. — Carlos Santana
I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right… — Marjane Satrapi
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control… — Haile Selassie
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to… — Gertrude Stein
Friendship has its illusions no less than love. — Stendhal
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas.… — Tom Stoppard
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there… — Alan Watts
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. — Simone Weil
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life. — Kate Chopin
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads.… — Kurt Vonnegut
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so… — Hunter S. Thompson
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a… — J. G. Ballard
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand… — Amy Tan
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. — Barbara Kingsolver

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