David Eagleman Quotes

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Seeing is not always believing.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Never believe your eyes

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.