Vincent Bugliosi Quotes

A democracy becomes ungovernable if a substantial portion of the population lives in an alternative reality…. How do you have a rational conversation about President Obama’s policies of he believes that Obama is a spy for Iran.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

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

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I'll show you a liar. It happens.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

You can convince yourself of just about anything when you want to believe a conspiracy theory.

We're awash in toxic memes right now. One of the most toxic, I think because it enables so many others, is the idea that truth doesn't matter, that truth is just relative, that there's no such thing as establishing the truth of anything. Your truth, my truth, we're all entitled to our own truths. That's pernicious, it's attractive to many people, and it is used to exploit people in all sorts of nefarious ways. The truth really does matter.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

There is no patch for stupidity.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

I think that there is something that happens, a phenomenon that happens around a conspiracy theory, where if you believe in a conspiracy theory, then every critique of that theory is simply more proof that the conspiracy exists. And I think that that's something that goes on in the person of Donald Trump.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

Everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.