Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

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

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.

Things are not always as they seem.

Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.

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

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.