Explain Quote by Kevin Young

If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a…

— Charlie Huston

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

— Elia Kazan

I love belief it can move the pallet on a Ouija board or put a man into space. The problem that we have is…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

— Jim Butcher

I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a…

— Kevin Young

“All supernatural horror depends on a confusion of what we believe should be and should not be. As scientists, philosophers, and spiritual figures have…

— Thomas Ligotti

“JONES IS BOTH symptom and cause of how knee-jerk, florid conspiracism has become rampant and normalized in America, a fixture of the way people…

— Kurt Andersen

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

— Al Gore

The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of…

— J. Edgar Hoover

If we discovered, emphatically, that ghosts were real, I probably wouldn't be surprised.

— Sarah Snook

Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes…

— Hank Green

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid…

— Anonymous