Famous quotes containing the words false and/or belief:
“There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)