What we wish, that we readily believe.

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

— Demosthenes

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…

— Demosthenes

People readily believe what they want to believe.

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

— Pablo Picasso

The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on…

— Arthur Capper

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis,…

— Myron Scholes

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and…

— Peter Dinklage

I wouldn't want to even try to begin to describe our customer, as I think she likes a certain amount of anonymity. I try…

— Phoebe Philo

I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict.

— St. Lucia

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

— Chris Sullivan

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and…

— Giacomo Casanova

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,…

— Joanna Scott