Top 172 Deluded Quotes & Sayings

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

Everyone claims to have found the 'Holy Grail' - the perfect formula that can guarantee a hit in Bollywood. But those who seriously believe in it are deluded.

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.

If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.

Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.

I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

If you think you're right 80% of the time, you're deluded.

When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.

Love makes you deluded.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

The word you sometimes get is 'deluded,' they use, but for me, I've always been very positive.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

If someone as deluded as I was can be brought out of homosexuality then surely anyone can.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

I can't bear the idea that I might be in any way deluded about myself.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about who you have intimate contact with.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

There are real possibilities of reaching many of the Trump voters: many of them in fact voted for Obama, believing his rhetoric about "change," and upon realizing that they were deluded, have turned to Trump. And will find that they are again deluded. That's an opportunity that can be grasped, by organizing, education, activism right now.

The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.

I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded.

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.