Ivan Pavlov Quotes

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Words, as is well known, are the greatest foes of reality.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

Repetition often becomes fact.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

You have seen it: You can put something into the world, and all of a sudden, everybody believes that. Like throwing a fishing rod and the fish bite into.

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

Words are powerful.

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.

Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.