Robert J. Ringer Quotes

Assumptions are dangerous things.

We won't get fooled again!

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.

You cannot take things for granted.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

Like everybody and trust no one.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

Trust not one night's ice.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.