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Quote DB :: Authors :: George Bernard Shaw :: View Quote View Quote "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it." - Copy to Clipboard   --  George Bernard Shaw Listed in: Debate, Thinking Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 9 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from George Bernard Shaw "In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it." "The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them." "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance." "Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends." "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." Top 5 quotes from Debate, Thinking "There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord." "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses." "What once was thought can never be unthought." "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

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