Believe Quote by Thomas Sowell

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

— Lord Chesterfield

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the…

— Walter Martin

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained,…

— Charles Brockden Brown

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

— John Ortberg

I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A good deal…

— Charles Darwin

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either…

— Francesco Guicciardini

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

— Margaret Mitchell

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of…

— James Martineau

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

“Despite the worldwide opinion that women are loquacious and indiscreet, my own experience has led me to believe that women on the whole make…

— Jan Karski

Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would…

— David Hume