Top 808 Optical Illusions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.

If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

What had started out as a game was now an open challenge, as well as a direct threat. Any further action would bear results, it was clear from the way his gaze smoldered into mine. In that way, it was like an optical erection.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

I have no illusions of being an icon to young girls or anybody.

people with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

There's a certain vibe in my hometown; Buffalo is a city that has no illusions.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.