A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
Al Goldstein

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Bodhidharma

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Ludwig Borne

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
James Levine

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Alexander Alekhine

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
Walter Wager

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.
Steve Albini

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
Robert Walpole

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
Rose Macaulay

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru Nanak

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Charles Mackay

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Thomas Huxley