Belief Quote by Tertullian

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

— Bernard Williams

Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be…

— Francis Spufford

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called…

— Masashi Kishimoto

“Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution. Yet many…

— D. Allen Miller

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“You would elevate tradition and societal approval over the expansion of knowledge. If anything deserves to be called ‘illogical,’ it is that.”

— David Mack

“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes…

— Sigmund Freud

So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry.…

— Gail Fine

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

— Isaac Asimov

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

— Joseph Roux

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

— Daniel J. Boorstin