Behaviour-psychology Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs. Considering”

— Daniel Kahneman

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the…

— Daniel Kahneman

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of…

— Thomas Sowell

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

— Sam Harris

“We are terrible at seeking evidence that challenges our own beliefs, but other people do us this favor, just as we are good at…

— Maria Konnikova

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical…

— Sam Harris

“the weight of evidence ‘cannot convince those who do not wish to believe”

— Alison Weir

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

— Anonymous

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

— James Randi

“a skeptic's mantra is "extraordinary beliefs require extraordinary evidence.”

— Anonymous

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so…

— Chauncey Wright

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it…

— William Kingdon Clifford