Julius Caesar Quotes

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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

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

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

People are going to believe what they want to believe.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

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

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

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

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

People believe what they want to believe.

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.

Even intelligent people succumb to their own propaganda.

We tend to believe our own propaganda a little too completely.

Most men … can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives

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.

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

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