Sam Richardson Quotes

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I often meet people who say, 'I thought you were dead.'

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.

A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

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

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

There are many kinds of delusion.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.