Unjustified Beliefs Quotes

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

I wish to propose for the reader's favorable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe in a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

Conspiracy theories are beliefs unencumbered by facts.

You should never assume about someone.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing

Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

So much stupidity has already oppressed the wretched world that Christians now believe things so absurd that no one ever before could persuade the pagans to believe them.

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Every time you feel entitled, you're making a mistake.

I focused my mind and energies on short-term Trump problems, which allowed me to avoid thinking about my own long-term Trump problem of having given him the benefit of the doubt for more than a decade, despite having many reasons not to.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.