Adolf Hitler Quotes

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

The public's not stupid.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

The public are not stupid.

If people believe something is true, then it is even if it isn't.

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

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers

Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

Belief gets in the way of learning.