A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Language was invented to ask questions.

All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.