Answers Quote by Thomas Sowell

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

— Walter Kaufmann

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

— James Randi

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

— James Harvey Robinson

People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe…

— Jonathan Haidt

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

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

— Carl Sagan

People with many opinions tend not to believe in anything.

— Jimmy Carter

“I really do believe that our attitudes are shaped much more by our social groups than they are by facts on the ground. We…

— Steven Sloman

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because…

— Steven Pinker

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

— Thomas Jefferson

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we…

— Dallas Willard