Disabused Quotes

#1. I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Alexei Sayle

#2. I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

Sylvia Plath

#3. I love the idea that an abuse can be negated. And that the things most often disabused are notions.

David Levithan

#4. I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.

Parker J. Palmer

#6. His experience with Household Finance had disabused him of any hope that the government would intercede to prevent rich corporations from doing bad things to poor people.

Michael Lewis

#7. My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon.

Julia Glass

#8. I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

Barry Hannah

#9. Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.

Auliq Ice

#10. The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

Emile M. Cioran

#11. Enlightened despotism: the only regime that can attract a disabused mind, one incapable of being the accomplice of revolutions since it is not even the accomplice of history.

Emil M. Cioran

#12. It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia.

Muriel Barbery

#13. I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

Morgan Freeman

#14. We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.

Hill Harper

#15. Some last words should never be said.

Mary E. Pearson

#16. My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

Fred D'Aguiar

#17. You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that's important.

Blake Griffin

#18. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!

George Carlin

#19. My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

Keira Knightley

#20. The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.

Max Von Sydow

#21. To know the pain of too much tenderness.

Kahlil Gibran

#22. I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.

Paul Smith

#23. And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid - the thought of getting their alembics on which made the city's alchemists whine like dogs - was provoking more and more interest from London's repo-men and -women.

China Mieville

#24. The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

Vince Lombardi

#25. There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

Pythagoras

#26. Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

Marilyn Vos Savant