Antoine Lavoisier Quotes

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Some people choose not to believe the truth because it disagrees with what they fundamentally want.

Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question.

Partisanship shapes the reality that people choose to see.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

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

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

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

When all else fails there's always delusion.