Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.