Mary Stewart Quotes

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

You can never trust what you read.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are intentionally bad.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.