Believe Quote by Jonah Lehrer

“Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.…

— Jonathan Schooler

When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

— Jonah Lehrer

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

— Bertrand Russell

To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.

— Simon Ramo

For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not…

— H. L. Mencken

When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.”

— Dan Brown

“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient…

— H.L. Mencken

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

— Carl Sagan

There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to…

— David Hume

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

— Socrates