Suggestibility Quotes & Sayings

The scientific dictator of tomorrow will set up his whispering machines and subliminal projectors in schools and hospitals (children and the sick are highly suggestible), and in all public places where audiences can be given a preliminary softening up by suggestibility-increasing oratory or rituals. — Aldous Huxley

Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness. — Boris Sidis

Oh, what have I to do with time? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names. — Bob Goff

The psychological fact of suggestion is that if statements are made again and again in a confident manner, without argument or proof, then their hearers will tend to believe them quite independently of their soundness and of the presence or absence of evidence for their truth. — Robert H. Thouless

Why aren't you turning me over to your cop friends right now?" she demanded.
He shrugged. "To tell the truth, I have absolutely no idea. But let's talk anyway. — Paige Tyler

There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't. — Edna Ferber

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. — Ava DuVernay

Shion sat down in front of the heater. His white hair, leaning more on transparent, was tinged red with the colours of the flame. His youthful hair had lost its colour, but still retained its shine. "It's beautiful" Nezumi thought. — Atsuko Asano

You only fall when you look down, Coyote. — Robert Brockway

Cult (totalistic type): a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control (e.g., isolation from former friends and family, debilitation, use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressure, information management, suspension of individuality or critical judgement, promotion of total dependency on the group and fear of leaving it, etc) designed to advance the goals of the group's leaders, to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families, or the community. — Louis Jolyon West

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so. — Shakuntala Devi

All people have their blind side-their superstitions. — Charles Lamb

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility. — William Butler Yeats

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known. — Bill Nelson

Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years. — Peter J. Carroll