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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

Originality is merely an illusion.

M. C. Escher

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

Tennessee Williams

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Woody Allen

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Robert Burton

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Rebecca West

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Voltaire

The illusion is that help (from the federal government) will be there minutes later, which is really not the case.

Irwin Redlener

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Japanese Proverb

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

George Lucas

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

Gary Zukav

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

You have the illusion that you're looking straight down at the bottom of the hill.

Bill Demong

We used a tailored cup set into a satin band. That gives the illusion that the cup is smaller.

Norah Alberto

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

Millicent Fenwick

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Henri Nouwen

An illusion that he's a moderate.

Brian Nick

If you would think that all the Sunni Arabs on the constitutional drafting committee would say, 'OK, we agree with the others' ... I think this is an illusion. I think that consensus is almost impossible.

Laith Kubba

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

Allan Bloom

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Herman Wouk

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right, ... Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

Donna Karan

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

Bonnie Young

Privacy is an illusion. Privacy doesn't exist, and it hasn't existed for quite a long time.

Robert Siciliano

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.

Fred Rogers

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Georges Bernanos

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Nicholas Chamfort

You gotta have a fire inside. If anyone has the illusion that elected office is something easy, it is not. Is it worthwhile? Absolutely.

Dannie Mcconkie

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

We must not harbor the illusion of a killer application.

Judy Estrin

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Avram Noam Chomsky

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Marilyn C. Barrick

We're now at that point where the graphics are good enough to preserve the illusion and make you feel more immersed in the environment.

J Allard

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

Alexander Chase

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion.

Dean Gilmour

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Judy Garland

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

F. Sagan

They have no signatures. They are only trying to create the illusion that they are a powerful organization.

Bill Vickery

Prosperity or egalitarianism / you have to choose. I favor freedom / you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Harriet Nowell created the illusion of a hoop skirt by the types and placement of the fabric in her design.

Mary Rosza

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Timothy Zahn

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Ludwig Borne

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths.

Alexander Pushkin

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

Guy Verhofstadt

Everything is artifice or illusion.

Don Quixote

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Stanley Kubrick

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

It's what I call the illusion of security, that's what I call it.

Bill Butler

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

David Cronenberg

We can do better than the false bravado of 'bring 'em on' — remember that? We can do better than the illusion of 'mission accomplished,' .

Evan Bayh