Sigmund Freud Quotes

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

What ardently we wish, we soon believe.

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 willingly believe what they wish.

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

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

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.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

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

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

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

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

We can't tell our life from our wish

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

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.