Top 91 Delude Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Love is rarely flawless," Carter pointed out. "Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.
Richelle Mead
#3. Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'
Dalai Lama
#4. In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Who are we when we don't allow flaws in our existence, but people of denial? To delude ourselves into believing we are perfect or that perfection exists at any level is an injustice to who we really are.
Sarah Noffke
#6. She knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think
or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#7. Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
Benjamin Haydon
#8. Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.
Radhanath Swami
#9. We delude ourselves if we think that decency is not rewarded in other people simply because we refuse to practice it ourselves.
Sarah Scheele
#10. We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.
Niall Ferguson
#11. The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may delude our short-sighted judgments, never fail to vindicate their supremacy and immutability.
William Cabell Rives
#12. Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.
Harold Evans
#13. This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.
Woody Allen
#14. I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.
Paul Dano
#15. We delude ourselves when we suppose than the main impact of speech lies in the words (as opposed to the voice), just as we delude ourselves when we cite logical reasons, which are actually rationalizations or justifications, for our decisions.
Charles Eisenstein
#16. I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.
Joe Berlinger
#17. Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.
Terry Goodkind
#18. Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.
John Gay
#19. Denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people.
Eric Bogosian
#20. It truly amazes me how easily you delude yourself into believing I actually give a shit.-Cyrus DCCD
Bianca Sommerland
#21. Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.
Dallas Willard
#23. I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.
Rabih Alameddine
#24. Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
Hedrick Smith
#25. But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
Karen Joy Fowler
#26. To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagner
#28. The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.
Noam Chomsky
#29. I think the first reading of a poem is a true one, and after that we delude ourselves into the belief that the sensation, the impression, is repeated.
Jorge Luis Borges
#30. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#32. Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.
Merton Miller
#33. How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.
John Lennox
#34. The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.
Yvon Chouinard
#35. If happiness is based on feeling pleasant sensations, then in order to be happier we need to re-engineer our biochemical system. If happiness is based on feeling that life is meaningful, then in order to be happier we need to delude ourselves more effectively.
Yuval Noah Harari
#36. Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
Jonathan Swift
#37. Many scorned women delude themselves that the past was negative and to be forgotten, whereas the present is positive and to be celebrated. But what they also forget is, at one time they celebrated that past, as the positive present.
Robert Black
#38. The earth is uninhabitable, like the moon, and we only delude ourselves thinking that it's our true home, since we have no other place to go. The earth is good for those who are irrational or invulnerable.
Mesa Selimovic
#39. Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.
Robert Greene
#40. If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
David Frum
#41. Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.
Richard Mitchell
#42. If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life [than a non-believer].
Woody Allen
#43. Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.
Richelle Mead
#44. ... Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless.
Irvine Welsh
#45. In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.
Pankaj Mishra
#46. The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
Bell Hooks
#47. I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.
Tina Fey
#48. That was the reason the casino bothered to list the wheel's most recent spins: to help gamblers to delude themselves.
Michael Lewis
#49. No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#50. Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
Carl Maria Von Weber
#52. Beer might make a smart man dull, but coffee is worse because it can delude a dull man into thinking he's smart.
Galen Beckett
#53. In the end, Alter and Forgas concluded the happier you are, the more likely you will be to seek out ways to delude yourself into maintaining your rosy outlook on life and your own abilities. Sad people, it seems, are more honest with themselves.
David McRaney
#55. When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God, like a gourmet who demands more complex sauces with his food.
Graham Greene
#56. It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.
Nora Ephron
#57. Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.
Alice Miller
#58. Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Dean Inge
#59. I don't mind ... the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.
Estelle Ramey
#60. As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.
Paul Dano
#61. I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.
Susan Sarandon
#62. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#63. 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
#64. Surely there was not another soul in England that could delude themselves like I could.
Sharon Cameron
#65. Whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.
John Cassian
#66. You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.
Benjamin Graham
#67. I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.
Stephen J. Cannell
#68. The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
Anthony De Mello
#69. The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.
Thomas Campion
#70. We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.
Sam Harris
#71. Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
Helen Keller
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may delude us. I am called Felix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It
Victor Hugo
#75. Words can lie. Words can deceive and delude and conceal and avoid. But the things you do, how you move, how you touch, those things cannot lie.
Jasinda Wilder
#76. There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
Chuck Palahniuk
#77. Sex and children are the two things that delude logic the most in this society.
Doug Stanhope
#78. When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.
Jennifer Aniston
#79. Dreams get shattered, hopes are belied, aspirations delude and opportunities elude us. Clouds have the power to conceal the sunshine and our radiance fails to ignite positive thoughts unless we embellish our thoughts and emotions, which can be trained to veer into a positive direction.
Balroop Singh
#80. Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."
Daniel Kahneman
#81. She did not delude herself into expecting Francis to love her. He had never been taught how to love, but had an arresting way of looking pleased at Adah's achievements.
Buchi Emecheta
#82. There is a nice Victorian reticence in denying the probability of a miserable prelude to mortality, and it is what everyone wants to hear. But if peace and dignity are what we delude ourselves to expect, most of us will die wondering what we, our our doctos, have done wrong.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#83. DO you know how people who have nothing delude themselves? You believe that there are things like truth and pity. There aren't such things. Do you still not know? Love or righteousness ... strong people are the ones who can't protect those things.
Kim Do-hoon
#84. Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#85. The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
Orson Scott Card
#86. It would make it that much harder to delude ourselves that humanity's ancestors, alone in the animal kingdom, lost their hair by wandering out into the sunshine.
Elaine Morgan
#87. I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end ...
Dan Wells
#88. We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.
Roberto Bolano
#89. I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#90. Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Gerald F. Lieberman
#91. The basis of a good marriage, a reasonably happy marriage - don't delude yourself, there is no such thing as an entirely happy marriage - is, precisely, inequality.
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
