Belief Quote by Thomas Huxley

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

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to think and…

— Joseph Heath

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

— Noam Chomsky

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

— Annie Besant

“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of…

— Steven Novella

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

— Etgar Keret

“It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e. disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which…

— Bertrand Russell

Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not…

— Ai Weiwei

“We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them…

— Scott Adams

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

— Orson Scott Card

... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to…

— Massimo Pigliucci