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Illusions Of Grandeur Quotes

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Jane Wagner
Funny, Illusions Of Grandeur, Delusions Of Grandeur

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

Eugene Ionesco
Illusions Of Grandeur, People, Delusions Of Grandeur
Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

Hugh Nibley
Mean, Past, Illusions Of Grandeur
Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Ralph Thomas Walker
Book, Humble, Illusions Of Grandeur

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense

Alfred Tarski
Real, Illusions Of Grandeur, Class

You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

Alfred Tarski
Class, Illusions Of Grandeur, Teeth
Alfred Tarski, Steven R. Givant (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”

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

Edwin Louis Cole
Greatness, Illusions Of Grandeur, Vision

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

John James Audubon
Fall, Illusions Of Grandeur, Blood
John James Audubon (1868). “The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]”, p.91

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