Accepting Quote by Charles Hugh Smith

Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be…

— Francis Spufford

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to…

— Winston Churchill

The short-term pain of accepting a truth is much better than the long-term pain of believing an illusion.

— Anonymous

For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality

— Sanal Edamaruku

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

— Nancy Gibbs

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

— Barbara Kingsolver

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

— David Bohm

“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to…

— Suzy Kassem

“If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or…

— Emily Thorne

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

— Judith Guest

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's…

— George Eliot