Julius Caesar Quotes

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. The moment we want to disbelieve anything we have previously believed we suddenly discover not only that there is a mass of evidence against it but that this evidence was starting us in the face all the time.

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.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit, since what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

The longer you hold a belief, the less likely it is to be true.

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.

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

A belief is not true because it is useful.