Pseudo Quotes

“Study the bible thoroughly before a pseudo-holy criminal mislead you!”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

— Gerhard Herzberg

“In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.”

— Marlene Van Niekerk

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

— Craig Ferguson

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

— James Mark Baldwin

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

— Eric S. Raymond

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

— Sandra Bullock

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes…

— Slavoj Žižek

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright,…

— Vera Nazarian

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

— R. D. Laing

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He…

— Fred Allen

After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class…

— Jay Michaelson

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true"…

— R. D. Laing

The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of…

— Ludwig von Mises

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in…

— Henry Miller

A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such…

— Norbert Wiener

The problem in Burma is the problem in Egypt, the problem you refer to in Yemen, and the problem in a lot…

— Larry Diamond

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully,…

— Martin Gardner

The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some…

— Hermann Kolbe

Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression…

— Walter J. Phillips

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive,…

— Christopher Hitchens

In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For…

— Fred Rodell

For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they…

— Sanal Edamaruku

Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be…

— Marge M. Kennedy

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.…

— Margaret Halsey

I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an…

— Vandana Shiva

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

— Marianne Williamson

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

— Vernon Howard

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

— Florence King

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

— Frances G. Wickes

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

— Anurag Kashyap

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

— Raymond Geuss

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

— David Deming

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and…

— Thomas Szasz

Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as…

— Joseph Stalin