Despise Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true…

— Al-Ghazali

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will…

— Jonathan Swift

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

— John Locke

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment…

— Baron d'Holbach

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he…

— John Locke

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

— Voltaire

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even…

— H. L. Mencken

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they…

— Leo Tolstoy

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon