LegendaryApophis wrote:Funny because I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all, I like X-files, and find it ALOT more easy to believe than *any* conspiracy theories.
Probably because I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and thus would believe real "conspiracies" and not made up ones..
i'll let people better than me do my talking

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"All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, Second it is violently opposed, Third it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, (1788-1860)
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
Winston Churchill
"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably ( not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
H.L. Mencken
"For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
H.L. Mencken
"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
George Santayana
"What, sir? You would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks?
I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."
Napoleon Bonaparte to Robert Fulton, upon hearing of the latter's plans for a steam-powered engine.
"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done ... The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."
U.S. Admiral William D. Leahy to President Truman, on atomic weaponry (1945)
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance of things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
Schopenhauer
When leading authorities are all in agreement, they are almost always wrong.
An Old Axiom
"Almost everything that almost everyone believes is wrong."
Andrew J. Galambos
"Great thinkers have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
Albert Einstein
"The truth of today was the heresy of yesterday. Therefore, dare."
Immanuel Velikovsky.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"X-rays are a hoax."
Lord Kelvin, engineer and physicist (c. 1900)
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Howard Aiken
"He who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries."
J.G. Holland
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
John Locke
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em."
Louis Armstrong
"If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated."
Wilfred Trotter
"The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes."
Marcel Proust
"A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any way be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe."
H. D. Thoreau
"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling."
R. Pirsig
"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."
Stephen Jay Gould
"By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them."
William James
"The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"New ideas are always criticized - not because an idea lacks merit, but because it might turn out to be workable, which would threaten the reputations of many people whose opinions conflict with it. Some people may even lose their jobs."
physicist, requested anonymity
"Sit down before facts like a child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
T.H. Huxley
"When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it."
Mark Twain
"You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back."
Beverly Rubik
"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert."
Anonymous
"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke, or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow."
Charles Brower
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." William James
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you."
Don Marquis
What I don't understand I despise, what I despise I reject.
The Referee's Creed
i wonder how many people will actually take in any of the above "TRUTHS"???