Delusion Quote by Scott Adams

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from…

— Scott Adams

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively…

— T. D. Jakes

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too…

— Walter Abish

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

“When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime of truth.…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“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

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 are always going to be skeptics. Prove them wrong.

— Robert Kiyosaki

As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.

— Steven Pinker

“One can only return to the fact that even the most ordinary, good-hearted, intelligent people are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical…

— Criss Jami

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion…

— H. L. Mencken