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In the narrow sense illusion is the disorientation of the senses wherein the brain receives a distorted stimulated sensory signal. There are different forms of illusion but optical, auditory, tactile and olfaction illusions are the most common. In the broader context, illusion relates to the spiritual aspect, where all material comforts and bonds are termed as illusion. This philosophical illusion is commonly found in the Hindu scriptures. Look below to read theses out of the ordinary illusion quotation and sayings.

Joe Rogan

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

Joe Rogan
Richard Gere

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

Quality
Richard Gere
Thomas Moore

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Love Romance Short Love Wedding
Thomas Moore
Noam Chomsky

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

World
Noam Chomsky
Henry Thomas

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

Professionalism Things
Henry Thomas
George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Communication
George Bernard Shaw
David Blaine

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

Art Magic
David Blaine
Jean-Claude Van Damme

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Women
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Stanley Kubrick

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Stanley Kubrick
Socrates

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Nothing
Socrates
Woody Allen

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Tradition
Woody Allen
Judy Garland

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Judy Garland

With Tinder and all these other things, there's always this kind of illusion with infinite choices. There's something very cool about saying, 'Oh, I actually really care about this person, and I want to commit to loving this person and being loyal to this person.' You can't get that from the kind of infinite multiple choices that are out there.

Cool
John Legend
Guy Ritchie

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

Teamwork
Guy Ritchie
Tom Stoppard

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Power Responsibility
Tom Stoppard
Emilio Estevez

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Family Faith
Emilio Estevez
Georges St-Pierre

There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion.

Time
Georges St-Pierre
Michael Jordan

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

Fear
Michael Jordan
Sigmund Freud

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Strength Religion
Sigmund Freud

I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises when we try to counter this insecurity by cultivating this illusion of control, and we start taking ourselves and everything we know too seriously.

Nothing
Sushant Singh Rajput
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Reality Wisdom
Albert Einstein
Al Pacino

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

Character
Al Pacino
Woody Allen

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Nothing
Woody Allen
Rafael Nadal

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

Good
Rafael Nadal
Adele

The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

People Time
Adele
Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Future Past
Albert Einstein

Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

Love
Robert Downey Jr.
Gautama Buddha

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Wickedness
Gautama Buddha
Anthony Hopkins

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

Time
Anthony Hopkins
Voltaire

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire
John Cusack

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

Good Time
John Cusack
George Washington

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Pride Experience Nation
George Washington
Debbie Reynolds

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.

Family Romance Wives
Debbie Reynolds
Voltaire

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Voltaire
Johnny Depp

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Life Daughters
Johnny Depp
Blaise Pascal

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Wickedness
Blaise Pascal
Vladimir Putin

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

Vladimir Putin
Tyra Banks

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Tyra Banks