Acquisition Quote by Hilary Kornblith

Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently…

— Hilary Kornblith

Belief systems have flourished because they have facilitated the interests of the creatures involved.

— Bret Weinstein

Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right…

— Ernest Sosa

Belief creates behaviors.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Belief gets in the way of learning.

— Anonymous

Belief creates biology.

— Norman Cousins

Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Belief forms behavior.

— David Klinghoffer

Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have…

— Hilary Kornblith

“In adaptive terms, belief has been extraordinarily useful. It is, after all, by believing various propositions about the world that we predict events and…

— Sam Harris

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

— Bertrand Russell

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison