Right or wrong Quote by Frank Herbert

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the…

— Frank Herbert

“people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are…

— Daniel Kahneman

“We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what underpins these…

— Stephen McAndrew

“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are finally proved…

— George Orwell

“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Where there is absence of the wrong belief, there is true presence of the right belief.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and…

— Hippocrates

“You can be mistaken about what you believe, most people never realize there's a difference between believing something and thinking it's good to believe…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.”

— Miguel Ruiz

“If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested,…

— Carl Sagan

“Blind assumption is the easiest way to disguise the truth.”

— P.D. Griffith

“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.”

— Voltaire