Libba Bray Quotes

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

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.

It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.

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

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.