Atheism Quote by Steven Novella

“Our motivations thus influence our beliefs through the subtle ways we choose a comforting pattern from the fabric of evidence.”

— Thomas Gilovich

“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The emotional parts of my brain are telling me not to trust any of this and run for it, and the rational parts are…

— Nat Kozinn

“Chapter 7 takes a psychological truism, “we tend to believe what we think others believe” and turns it around: We tend to think others…

— Thomas Gilovich

“social psychologist Ziva Kunda, who argues that people are indeed more likely to believe things they want to believe, but that their capacity to…

— Thomas Gilovich

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

— Thomas Huxley

“Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking…

— L. Susan Stebbing

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

“The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.”

— Valerie Tarico

“Confirmation bias is our innate tendency to pay more attention to information that confirms our beliefs.[”

— Cindy Alvarez

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon…

— James Harvey Robinson

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

— Aimee Mullins