Cassandra Peterson Quotes

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

One illusion is as good as another.

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

A lot of people think, and Microsoft is happy to let them think, that all great things are invented by Microsoft. In fact, very, very little has been invented by Microsoft.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

The Bishop of London sympathizes with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is more often earnest than truth.

The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie ... but the myth.

What is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true. Truth has a harshness that alarms them, and an air of finality that collides with their incurable romanticism..

There is a myth that is being perpetuated that I am afraid of snakes. And I am not afraid of snakes!

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

There are many kinds of delusion.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.