Conjuror's Quotes

#1. The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Our intuitions have developed on the basis of our limited experience.

Carlo Rovelli

#3. Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

Karl Germain

#4. 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.

James Randi

#5. This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

Julia Barr

#6. A hole ain't nothing either, but you can still break your neck in it.

Sara Donati

#7. Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"

John Ross Macduff

#8. Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Aldous Huxley

#9. You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Anthony Horowitz

#10. It's important to remember that Mark David Chapman really set a lot of trends: such as the trend of celebrities having bodyguards.

Julie Klausner

#11. All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Thomas Paine

#12. People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

Meryl Streep

#13. Those people who leap from personal bafflement at a natural phenomenon straight to a hasty invocation of the supernatural are no better than the fools who see a conjuror bending a spoon and leap to the conclusion that it is 'paranormal'.

Richard Dawkins