Joel Hodgson Quotes

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

It is not easy to distinguish reality from illusion, especially when one lives in a period of the great upheaval.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.

I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent."

I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.

The plan is not what you think.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

It's shocking the things we call love.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.