Bertrand Russell Quotes

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

People believe what they want to believe.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Some people choose not to believe the truth because it disagrees with what they fundamentally want.

Our capacity for belief is so plastic, we can convince ourselves of anything. Believing is seeing.

Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices.

I do believe my mum looks after me, and I feel so much faith thinking that she is riding with me and is with me in everyday life, whenever I need her.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

You believe what you want to believe

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

I feel nobody can be against me when God is within me.

People are going to believe what they want to believe.

It doesn't matter what happens: God will always be there.

I had to be steadfast in my Christian beliefs, seeking strength from them.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.