Psychology Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

“But a fact is like a sack which won't stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has…

— Luigi Pirandello

“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.”

— Justice Frankfurter

“When all around take fundamental ideas for granted, these must be the truth. For most minds there is no comfort like it.”

— Jacques Barzun

“As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence…

— Blaine Lee Pardoe

“Rational truth—and all truth is rational—is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.”

— R. G. Collingwood

“So much of what we imagine to be the testimony of reason or the clear and unequivocal evidence of our senses is really only…

— David Bentley Hart

“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

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

— Till Roenneberg

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and…

— Karl R. Popper