Battlefields Quote by George Orwell

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

— Al Gore

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

— Richard Dawkins

George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

— Al Gore

“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

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

— Henry Rosovsky

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

— George Eliot

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

— E. O. Wilson

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

— Thomas Carlyle

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

— Martin Amis

The religions we call false were once true.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

— Mark Thomas