#delusion

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#cheap #delusions #house #live

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

#either #greater #industry #lack #life

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#cause #delusion #effect #fault #simple

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#delusion #famous #full #ham #i

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

— Don Marquis

#delusion #entirely #fishing #liars #old

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#been #bit #delusions #dies #down

I went out to eat on a restaurant’s opening night. It was packed! I guess people heard I’d be dining there and came to adore me. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#delusional #funny #funny

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses