H. G. Wells Quotes

Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.

I've always been intrigued by why people believe one thing over another.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately.

I am ultimately convinced that people must first be told that so and so is great, and then, after a period of given time, they come to believe it for themselves.

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

The secret to modern propaganda is to simplify and repeat.

It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his tribal identity depends on his not understanding it.

If people tell an untruth long enough and loud enough, they begin to believe it themselves.

Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true, but many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.