Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.