Penn Jillette Quotes

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

People tend to see power carried out by conspiracy. It's easy to believe in.

I do not believe in conspiracy theories.

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

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

You don’t have to be a paranoid to question the official explanation of things, although it helps …. There will always be more dots to connect.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

Everything's a conspiracy and everything's not a conspiracy. You could look at this planet and go, "This is all a conspiracy. God made this to test us to see if we'll use the nukes." You can let your mind believe anything.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.