Disillusion Quotes

You see corruption all over Latin America, but Brazil has raised it to a new art. It's disillusioning. - Bruce Bagley

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. - George Santayana

While the sense of anger and disillusionment and division is very deep and is obviously revealed for all to see in the events of recent days, the truth still remains that the only way forward is through dialogue... The talks commence next Tuesday and I believe that everybody must bend every effort to make those talks a success. - John Bruton

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. - Ralph Fiennes

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House. - Scott McClellan

When I got in [to SSU in 2001], I found out that they had never done a feasibility study. The president told me that he just made the decision to move to D-I. He was disillusioned with the old conference they were in [the SIAC] and wanted to go D-I. - Hank Ford

We're not telling people to rush out and buy. We still see a gradual erosion of the multiple, a certain amount of disillusionment with management, a lag in earnings relative to the economic recovery and corporate spending. If people think we're turning positive on the stock, we're not. - Ariane Mahler

We cannot see that enormous apparatus of force that the modern orchestra represents without feeling the most profound and total disillusion at the paltry acoustic results. Do you know of any sight more ridiculous than that of twenty men furiously bent on redoubling the mewing of a violin? - Luigi Russolo