Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

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

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!

Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.

People tend to see power carried out by conspiracy. It's easy to believe in.

Ignorant, restless desperadoes, without conscience or principles, have led a deluded multitude to follow their standard under pretense of grievances which have no existence but in their imaginations.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are intentionally bad.