Suggestibility Quotes

#1. If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

William Butler Yeats

#2. 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

#3. Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

Boris Sidis

#4. Now interpersonal politics ... that's what it's all about.

Max Cannon

#5. 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

#6. I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Andrew Wiles

#7. The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

Nelson Mandela

#8. Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Mary Schmich

#9. Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Where did you get those big eyes?
My mother.
And where did you get those lips?
My mother.
And the loneliness?
My mother.
And that broken heart?
My mother.
And the absence, where did you get that?
My father.

Warsan Shire