Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Therefore trust to thy heart and to what the world calls illusions.
We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity or loftiness with leadership.
This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity or loftiness with leadership.
May I say finally that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions that they exist in the present which is what there is and all there is.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
I had great faith in Irish actors that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
Experience comprises illusions lost rather than wisdom gained.
Dreams are illusions and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
Language philosophy and science are interwoven into the design of words which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure which I cannot claim to have there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.