It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of diehard Stalinists at the height of the purges as of libertarian climate deniers today. p. 37

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

Few people have the testicular fortitude to be non-believers because it's a lot easier to be a believer

a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative; it is not till the second or third thought that doubt begins. Belief is so vital and necessary that one would say the tendency was made strong at the perpetual risk of extra belief and superstition; it were better to believe too much than not enough. Hence mankind have always believed too much, as if to make sure that the anchor hold. To believe just enough, to free his mind from all cant and from all illusion, and see things just as in themselves they are, is the aim of the philosopher or of the true skeptic.

Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.

All they have to do is refuse to believe it means death. The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.