Delusion Quote by Bertrand Russell

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory,…

— Milan Kundera

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“People prefer opinions to truth. They try to bend the world to fit their assumptions, instead of changing their assumptions to fit the world.…

— Elizabeth C. Mock

There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some…

— Dugald Stewert

“More erudite authors who advocate an irrationalist point of view, such as the pragmatist philosophers, are not to be caught out so easily. They…

— Bertrand Russell

A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting…

— Lee Strobel

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely…

— Pierre Bayle

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working…

— Spencer A. Rathus

“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker his first duty is to follow his intellect wherever…

— John Stuart Mill

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

— Douglas Adams

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain…

— John Lukacs