Suggestion Quotes

“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
― Richard Dawkins

“Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

“A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The captain of this sailing vessel has requested a private audience with you in his quarters. It seems you’ve a treasure map hidden on your person, and I mean to explore every inch of you until it is discovered.”
― Olivia Parker, At the Bride Hunt Ball

“The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly.”
― Anne Bishop, Marked in Flesh

“You should end the enemy at your feet.'
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'I can't kill an unconscious man.'
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'He would kill you given the same chance.'

'Well, that's a statement on his character. Not mine.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Wise people advice from experience. Wiser people, from experience, do not advice.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“No! Wait! I've got a better idea..."

"Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock."

"And your point is..."

"Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'.”
― Howard Tayler, The Tub of Happiness

“People offer free advice because they don't use that advice for themselves anyway.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Does that mean that if we shave all the Ob'enn they'll be nice?”
― Howard Tayler, The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance

“It's advice, not a commandment.
Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“The best way to flatter people is to ask them for an advice.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“People have the right not to change as per our wish, suggestion, or command, even if the change would benefit nobody but them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There was a way to know if you had made headway. You knew you had made headway, when a doctor to whom you had made one or another suggestions, presented, a day later, the plan as his own.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Our leisure time is occupied increasingly by automatized activities in which we take no part: listening to piped-in words and viewing television screens (no portable smartphones, laptops back when Dr. Meerloo wrote his book). We hurry along with cars and go to bed with a sleeping pill. This pattern of living in turn may open the way for renewed sneak attacks on our mind. Our boredom may welcome any seductive suggestion.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“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, التفكير المستقيم والتفكير الأعوج

“Don't seek the devil in the place which he calls his home”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje

“The power of suggestion. Maybe everything human ended up being subjective and nothing could be known for sure.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“Most parents think that the commands they give their children are merely suggestions wrapped with lovingness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Advice often does not fit the hands of the poor.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“The opinion of powerful always seems convincing.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The suggestion is such a frame that displays its actual shape and picture after the concrete decision and action.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“It is a human instinct to feel uncomfortable about eating when we cannot see our food, it is a shame however that we dont get a similar warning when we consume previously unknown information with pathways which we cannot fully trace to its origin or intended destination.”
― Monaristw

“Suggestion is the greatest power in human culture. The sooner people understand that, the better. Let’s not bother teaching “mindfulness” to children in schools. Instead, let’s teach them the secrets of the mind, including the vast power of the subjective mind, and how it can be controlled by the objective mind and the extraordinary potency of suggestion, of authoritative command.”
― Jack Tanner, The Second Mind: Accessing Your Divine Powers

“It’s time for the benevolent hypnosis of humanity. It’s time for positive, optimistic suggestion to be ubiquitous. Suggestion is an amazing power, the greatest human power of all. Advertisers use it all the time, and demagogues, and religious and spiritual leaders, and monarchs, and the super-rich elite. Submissives are extremely receptive to suggestions made by dominants. Throughout history, self-serving dominants have told the masses what to think, and the masses have duly thought it, even when it is against their own interests. This is the basis of false consciousness. We need to ensure that everyone gets a true consciousness. It’s time for a New World Order and a new, higher humanity – one that has a radically different relationship with suggestion. Suggestion must reflect the general will and be for everyone’s benefit. We have all the tools at our disposal to bring about an astonishing metamorphosis of humanity.”
― Jack Tanner, The Second Mind: Accessing Your Divine Powers

“Wisdom and riches are not always synonymous. There are instances of 'rich but foolish' and 'poor but wise'. Solomon's riches did not result from his wisdom; he was blessed riches also. The wisest of all men was poor. He was poor enough to obtain a coin from someone in his audience (without ridicule) to postulate the famous quote, "give Caesar's things to Caesar ..." Next time you ridicule a poor man's suggestion as bereft of wisdom, think twice. What he may be bereft of is the opportunity or sterner stuff it requires to convert it to cash.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“The suggestion is such a frame that displays its actual shape and picture after the concrete decision and action”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“One of the greatest powers in the human world is the power of suggestion, including counter-suggestion. If you put people in a clinical, scientific environment, this acts as a massive counter-suggestion and prevents psychic phenomena from manifesting. You need to recreate the kinds of environments where paranormal events typically occur in order to provide the power of suggestion that will allow the mind to access, channel and manifest such phenomena. You cannot allow materialists and skeptics anywhere near paranormal research since they will generate an enormous field of counter-suggestion that will disrupt, sabotage and thwart the desired phenomena. If you tell people it can’t be done, it won’t be. If you tell people they can achieve the impossible, they will.”
― Rob Armstrong, The Ordinary Necromancers: The Science of Ouija

“Keep Yourself Engaged in Meaningful Activities and See Yourself Grow as a Person.”
― Nidhi Aggarwal

“Kafka said, “In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.” That’s the degree of resistance and counter-suggestion you are up against, and that’s why most people can’t make the Law of Attraction work for them. But if you practice incredibly hard, and really put your mind to it, it really can be done. The formula really can work. After all, your second mind is a god. In a god’s struggle against the world, bet on the god!”
― Angelique Dawson, Your Success Mind: Use Your Second Mind to Achieve Your Dreams