Belief Quote by Errol Morris

Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role…

— Richard Wiseman

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

— Bernard Williams

Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and…

— Rupert Spira

We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our…

— Kyle Hill

We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong

— Gregory Bateson

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

— Carl Jung

Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something - and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it…

— Thomas Szasz

We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for…

— William R. Brody

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

— Charles R. Swindoll

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to…

— Thomas Gilovich

Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

— Rebecca Solnit