In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
The market for nonsense is infinite.
Nature doesn't cheat - people do.
[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.
Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.
If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.
Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.