Awareness Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that…

— Albert Pike

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Since our understanding of Truth itself does not remain constant, one who is determined to pursue it diligently must constantly test and reexamine his…

— Arun Gandhi

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of…

— John Stuart Mill

“Psychologists call this natural tendency to be selective in both our memory and our perception confirmation bias. People with strong convictions often take confirmation…

— Robert Carroll

It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own.

— Dorothy Fuldman

“beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”

— Daniel Kahneman

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

— Michel de Montaigne

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

“But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,— strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination…

— George Eliot

“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

“A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”

— Daniel Kahneman