Quotes of: Delude Keyword

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.

Thomas Merton

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Bodhidharma

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

Steven Levitt

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

Edie Falco

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

Greg Graffin

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

Mr. Kiss and Tell

How did I get where I am.” If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself.

Steve Merrick

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Beau Willimon

I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

Fragments

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

Robert Greene

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

Keith Henson

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Amity Shlaes

I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.

Bob Newhart

We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it.

Brianna Wiest

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.

Thurston Moore

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

Caitlin Moran

What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded.

Amy Tan

Capable psychonauts who think about thinking, about states of mind, about set and setting, can get things done not because they have more willpower or drive, but because they know productivity is a game played against a childish primal human predilec...

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It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".

The Bhagavadgita or The Song Divine

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

Case Files of an Angel