Illusion Quotes

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein

"Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."
-Voltaire

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
-Stephen Hawking

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
-Oscar Wilde

"I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion."
-Tennessee Williams

"Originality is merely an illusion."
-M. C. Escher

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
-Douglas Adams

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
-Leo Tolstoy

"If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?"
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
-Sigmund Freud

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."
-Miguel de Unamuno

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
-Daniel J. Boorstin

"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
-Rebecca West

"The illusion is that help (from the federal government) will be there minutes later, which is really not the case."
-Irwin Redlener

"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
-Robert Burton

"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."
-Pedro Calderon De La Barca

"The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place."
-Gary Zukav

"The secret to film is that it's an illusion."
-George Lucas

"Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness."
-Henrik Ibsen

"You have the illusion that you're looking straight down at the bottom of the hill."
-Bill Demong

"We used a tailored cup set into a satin band. That gives the illusion that the cup is smaller."
-Norah Alberto

"The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting."
-Millicent Fenwick

"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."
-Henri Nouwen

"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right, ... Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."
-Donna Karan

"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."
-Allan Bloom

"If you would think that all the Sunni Arabs on the constitutional drafting committee would say, 'OK, we agree with the others' ... I think this is an illusion. I think that consensus is almost impossible."
-Laith Kubba

"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."
-Bonnie Young

"An illusion that he's a moderate."
-Brian Nick