Boyd Rice Quotes

You must see first before you can believe.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

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

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

People never believe you.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

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

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body; andif a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for itI'll go to the world's end with him:MBut I hate disputes.

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.