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45 Illusion Quotes

An illusion is a deceptive appearance or impression. An illusion is a distortion of the senses. Illusion, a misrepresentation of a “real” sensory stimulus—that is, an interpretation that contradicts objective “reality” as defined by general agreement. Life brings many illusions. This is a collection of 45 illusion quotes and sayings.


The soul is an illusion. - Harry Dean Stanton
With true beauty, there is no illusion. - James Philip Head
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Voltaire
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. - Oscar Wilde
All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. - Meher Baba
Time is an illusion anyway. You can create as much time as you want. - Roy Choi
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. - Philip Guston
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge. - John Young
Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself. - Paul Schrader
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. - Julian Barbour
The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion. Guy Verhofstadt
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. - Christian Nevell Bovee
There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense. - Jihae
In antihistory, time is an illusion. - Jill Lepore
We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly. - Claire Messud
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. - Michael Jordan
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Charles Addams
The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. - Iris Murdoch
The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion. - Craig Bruce
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. - Saul Bellow
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. - David Icke
Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions. - Wojciech Kurtyka
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth. - Jagadish Chandra Bose
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. - Brad Bird
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. - Angela Carter
We have an illusion of security, we don't have security. - Isaac Yeffet
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. - Timothy Zahn
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art. - Joseph Joubert
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. - Voltaire
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. - Nicolas Chamfort
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. - Arthur Erickson
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. - Arthur Koestler
As men, we have the illusion that we run the world. - Fabio Lanzoni
Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions. - Robert E. Howard
Borrowed illusions are better than none. - Ellen Glasgow
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. - W. Somerset Maugham
Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion. - Margaret Fuller
The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one. - Eleanor Clark
Everything is an illusion. - Mata Hari
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