Currents Quote by Herbert Spencer

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of…

— John Stuart Mill

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

— Benjamin Cardozo

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons

— William James

“Fake or false beliefs abound, supported by many.”

— Steven Redhead

“The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all…

— Bertrand Russell

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

— Oscar Wilde

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

— Ralph Venning

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth;…

— Soren Kierkegaard

However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved…

— John Stuart Mill

“Many previous religions gained enormous popularity and power despite their factual inaccuracies.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions…

— John Stuart Mill