Quotes About Illusion

The magician Ian Rowland, in his classic The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading

what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act—and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment—are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. Proverbs 13:7

Goliath is not quite the giant he thinks he is.

Her body was Yvonne's too, her legs, her breasts, her pounding passionate heart, electricity crackled under his fingers running over her, though the sentimental illusion was going, it was sinking into a sea, as though it had not been there, it had become the sea, a desolate horizon with one huge black sailing ship, hull down, sweeping into the sunset; or her body was nothing, an abstraction merely, a calamity, a fiendish apparatus for calamitous sickening sensation; it was disaster.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

Time is an illusion, timing is an art.

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it's give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION.

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality.

Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,

Fear doesn't let you fail, it releases you from illusion!

What you feel, and what is real – all just a matter of perspective.

Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Success is not so much what you are but rather what you appear to be.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

Sometimes beauty is like curse

Bill McKibben wrote, 'We live in a post-natural world.' But did 'Nature' in this sense ever exist? Or was it rather the deification of the human that gave it an illusory apartness from ourselves? Now that non-human agencies have dispelled that illusion, we are confronted suddenly with a new task: that of finding other ways in which to imagine the unthinkable beings and events of this era.