Julius Caesar Quotes

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

We believe whatever we want to believe.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

We see what we want to believe.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

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