Illusions Of Grandeur Quotes:

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

- Edwin Louis Cole

topic: Greatness, Vision, Illusion, Grandeur, Illusions Of Grandeur

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

- Jane Wagner

topic: Funny, Delusions Of Grandeur, Feels, Grandeur, Illusions Of Grandeur

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

topic: Book, Humble, Years, Grandeur, Delusions Of Grandeur

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

- Eugene Ionesco

topic: People, Delusions Of Grandeur, Triviality, Illusions Of Grandeur

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

topic: Fall, Blood, Coward, Irresistible Force, Niagara

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

source: Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

topic: Mean, Past, Achievement, Eminence, Search For Knowledge

... 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

source: Alfred Tarski, Steven R. Givant (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”

topic: Real, Class, Medicine, Grandeur, Class Conflict

The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much more important in the world than they actually are. It has fostered illusions of grandeur in every man that are unwarranted. If you can think as a man that everything great in the world and its civilization was created by men, then naturally you have to look down on women. And naturally, you have to have different aspirations for your sons and for your daughters.

- Gerda Lerner

source: "Women and History Part I: The Creation of Patriarchy with Gerda Lerner". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.

topic: Daughter, Son, Men, Your Son, Our Daughter