Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

No one who lives in error is free.

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

Nothing is easier than self-deceit, since what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Every generation lives with illusions.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.

We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.