Belief Quote by Bertrand Russell

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find…

— George Henry Lewes

“Distinguishing between the emotion and the conviction or judgment that triggers it is often fundamental to the solution to one’s problem.”

— Jay E. Adams

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in…

— John Dewey

“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those…

— René Descartes

“Sometimes man has a tendency to look at someone else’s situation in order to find some type of justification or validation with his own,”

— E.N. Joy

“It is quite remarkable how firmly belief and conviction stand in the way of reasoning,”

— Till Roenneberg

“Psychologists call this natural tendency to be selective in both our memory and our perception confirmation bias. People with strong convictions often take confirmation…

— Robert Carroll

“He thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an…

— Julian Barnes

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

— Ayn Rand

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion…

— John Dewey

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

— Nathanael Emmons

There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try…

— G. I. Gurdjieff