Age Quote by Gore Vidal

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

— Socrates

“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

“entrenched disbelief is oddly immune to evidence.”

— Frans de Waal

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

— Thomas Jefferson

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

— Christiaan Huygens

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that.…

— Agatha Christie

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

— Selma Lagerlöf

The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even…

— Marshall Goldsmith

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

— Robin Hobb

“When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis. We can't…

— Nate Silver

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