Delusion Quotes

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.