Belief Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

— George Santayana

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand…

— Soren Kierkegaard

In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because…

— Galileo Galilei

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by…

— Anonymous

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas…

— Anonymous

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find…

— George Henry Lewes

Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are…

— John Locke

Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.…

— Claude Bernard

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

— David

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they…

— Richard Whately

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it…

— Charles Darwin