In the absence of facts, people believe what they want to believe.
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People believe what they want to believe.
TAB HUNTER People believe what they want to believe.
GAYLE FORMAN People will believe what they want to believe
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
ANDY ROONEY People believe what they want to believe, and I want to believe you're a smart man.
GRIM FANDANGO The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’...
BOHDI SANDERS People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives w...
GILLIAN FLYNN People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as lo...
JONATHAN HAIDT We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on ...
JERRY FALWELL You and I both know that people see only what they want to see and believe what they want to believe...
KAREN LYNCH People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions c...
TIMOTHY FERRISS When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I believe in the basic goodness of people, ... If presented with the facts, people will make the rig...
GERALD PROLMAN People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.
AL KERSHA Ontarians don't want to believe that they are small people. They want to believe that they'r...
KATHLEEN WYNNE If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage sh...
FOSTER FRIESS People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They ofte...
SETH GODIN Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people belie...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often ...
SETH GODIN If you want your kids to believe what you believe, you got to live what you say you believe in. Is i...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe p...
ISABEL GILLIES I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to...
GENE WOLFE I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
PAT BURNS ...[W]hy should we pay so much attention to what 'most people' think? The really reasonable people, ...
SOCRATES Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC I don't believe the people of Illinois want a governor that is unclear on the basics of legislation ...
BILL BRADY For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what ...
DEVAL PATRICK I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want y...
DAVID MUIR People have to have leadership that they believe in and that they believe supports them. Who is goin...
JAMIE JESSUP People may not always believe what you say, but they will believe what you do.
UNKNOWN Doubt the people that say who they are and believe in the people who tell you who they want to be.
ANDONI GARCIA People believe what they are told.
JACQUELINE CAREY Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why ...
ZAMAN ALI People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because peop...
TERRY GOODKIND Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and...
AULIQ ICE Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears...
HILARY MANTEL I believe in people, especially suffering people.
PAT BUCKLEY People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
ROBERT J. RINGER People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they a...
TERRY GOODKIND I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK If people want to believe I'm a dominatrix in my spare time, that's fine with me I mean, I'm defi...
JANE WIEDLIN People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE If you believe in people; they will believe in you.
KERI HARVEY The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
BRYANT H. MCGILL I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the rig...
BEN ELLIOT The reason for the the absence of the government agencies, I believe, is because they are participat...
HUGH KAUFMAN We believe in producing quality because, if you produce quality, you get the business. We know what ...
ALBERT ALAVERA And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
STACY SCHIFF I want to just be what kids believe in.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS Over there, people want to believe in you, if you can prove to them that you totally believe in you.
WILL KEMP I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.
ALAN SHEARER People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.
RATAN TATA I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, ...
DUANE MICHALS When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
PIERCE BROSNAN Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I belie...
MICHAEL GOVE People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect...
BILLY JOEL Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to bel...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN People believe. They believe in the desire of state government to help. They believe that the overwh...
BILL OWENS People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is co...
GRAHAM HANCOCK I believe in the greatness of our people.
CHEN SHUI-BIAN A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something...
GERALD STANLEY LEE A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something...
GERALD STANLEY I know what's going on and it isn't right. I've always been told to stand up for what you believe in...
ALEX MARTINEZ Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. The...
SOPHIA LOREN Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports enter...
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT Believe what you believe and it will be,
believe what others believe and they will consume you...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade...
CONOR MCGREGOR Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
FELIX COHEN Generally, the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories
FELIX COHEN In the absence of facts, the IAAF cannot and will not do anything,
ISTVAN GYULAI They (parents) want life to unfold according to what they believe. Most people want that. The last t...
LUKASZ LANIECKI I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just ...
STEVE HARVEY I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
KIRAN BEDI Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious...
SYDNEY SMITH I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not lo...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Not all can believe anything they want to,
because not all have the ability to believe.
TOBA BETA I don't believe that aliens exist,
but I do believe that any new facts
can strengthen foundation of ...
TOBA BETA It has to be this way, and these people have to be a part of modern Europe. That's what they want to...
WESLEY CLARK I believe in myself. I want to be a fighter. I want to be heavyweight champion of the world.
GERRY COONEY I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the b...
BILL GATES Believe in God.
Believe in Jesus Christ.
Believe in the Scriptures.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA People will believe anything they want to hear. Something's going to happen, just not for everybody.
JAMES THOMAS Our past experience is the manifestations of our thoughts..
we see what we want to see,
we listen wh...
MIROR_VEGAS Only five out of a hundred live according to what they think and believe in their minds. And four ou...
WILLIAM MITCHELL It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER The biggest reason people come in here, believe it or not, is not that they want the money. It's bec...
DAVID GOLDSTEIN Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us ...
CAROLYN MAHANEY I believe the facts are clear and establish that the deputies had no viable option but to shoot when...
MARK ROE We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in t...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD People want to be inspired by the movies, they want to have a cathartic experience and they want to ...
BRANDON GRAY People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
LEWIS CASS Some people hear and believe what are told,I believe half of what hear and whole of what i see
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SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER