Rush Limbaugh Quotes

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

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

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

You can't depend on polls.

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

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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

Nothing is easier than self-deceit, since what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

Men quickly find a theory that adapts itself to their desires.

If something happens that reinforces your stereotype, it’s a big deal.

One hears the things he likes to hear.

It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.

I don't put a lot of stock into polls.

I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.

Most people, they're dug in. 'Michael Jordan is the best player, and there's nothing LeBron can do.' A lot of people dug in that LeBron is whiny and he complains, he jumped teams, he wants all the best players. And once you have your mind made up on a particular topic, there's no moving you off of that.

I don't put too much stock in polls.

One theme we look at is what psychologists call motivated reasoning; lay people refer to it as self-deception, wishful thinking or rationalization. The list of creative ways people have for reaching conclusions they wish to reach and dismissing conclusions they find threatening is amazing. We've shown that it goes down even to the level of visual perception: You literally see what you want to see.

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

I don't care what the polls say.