When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.