Andy Partridge Quotes

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems.

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

Oh, Cena. You must think that I was born yesterday.

In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.