Quotes About Illusion

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance

Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.