We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.
Don't believe everything you think - or feel.
We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.
People believe what they want to believe.
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.