Suggestibility Quotes

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

Suggestibility is a very loose term. You may not be the sort of person who responds well to a hypnotist on stage, but you might find, for example, that a doctor administering a placebo to you is something you respond well to.

You have to realise that hypnosis doesn't exist: it just works on people's natural suggestibility, their expectations and capacity to unconsciously role play. You can't make someone do anything they don't want to do.

The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.

I'm impressionable, that's for sure.

Should women be on any pills besides birth control? We should just give them all sugar pills for everything, they're so suggestible.

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

It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.

Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.

I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.

Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

I think hypnosis is entertaining. I believe it's real.

I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of susceptibility.

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

I haven't hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they're fearful of it.