Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.

That which makes us believe so easily that others have defects is that we all so easily believe what we wish.

It becomes so easy to believe what one wishes to believe," Jhary said wearily. "So easy.

Everybody’s ideas seem obvious to them.

Most people believe almost anything they see in print.

Everyone always believes everything nasty of everyone else, and especially if it's a lie.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. (Roughly: It's easy for men to believe what they want to.)

People will believe in just about any kind of superstitious crap nowadays.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

People will believe what they want most to believe, what they yearn to be true. Nothing is more readily accepted than the seeming confirmation of an already established prejudice.

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

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish