“ You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?". ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 646
“ The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 44
“ It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. ”
- Derek Jarman- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see. ”
- Nelson Mandela- Copy
- 3.3K
“ That glorious vision of doing good, which is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds, arose before him. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.5K
“ If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody? ”
- John C. White- Copy
- 539
“ For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. ”
- Ouida- Copy
- 2.8K
“ No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
- 3K
“ Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2K
“ The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ”
- William Gibson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. ”
- Eddie Izzard- Copy
- 60
“ Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
- 776
“ No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ”
- Christian Nevell Bovee- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
- 740
“ No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. ”
- Elizabeth Bowen- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did. ”
- Konrad Lorenz- Copy
- 3.9K
“ One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. ”
- Thomas Brackett Reed- Copy
- 2K
“ The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 154
“ A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 2K
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