Graham Joyce Quotes

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.

If people tell an untruth long enough and loud enough, they begin to believe it themselves.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to speak. And the word is truth. And in every language it means exactly the same thing. Truth is . . . what you get other people to believe.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

What Americans seem to prefer — or at least the subset of them who live on social media — is a private square of people who already agree with them. The most successful of these preachers we call “influencers,” which basically means they get paid to manipulate you, and somehow you listen to them anyway.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.