Julius Caesar Quotes

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Americans see the world as they want it to be rather than the way it is.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

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.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

What ardently we wish, we soon believe.