Debunking Quotes

“Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.”
― John Hodgman, That is All

“Astrology fell into the class of a fake lie...and not worth the efforts of the debunking engine Cicero had been born with in place of a brain. Cicero's capacities were reserved for lies that mattered. Ideology, though that word was yet unknown to him: the veil of sustaining fiction that drove the world, what people needed to believe. This, Cicero wished to unmask and unmake, decry and destroy. (p. 65)”
― Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens

“I have always felt doubtful about those people who try to get one to give up one's own bunkum and accept their debunkum instead.”
― Nanamoli Thera

“Nothing can ultimately be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt—except to oneself via the wisdom, or gnosis, of personal experience—and anything and everything can be easily ‘debunked’ by the cavalier exercise of the fraudulent dieu du jour, reason.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality