:it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives:

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to sup…

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it fei…

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many t…

It is true that that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and…

'Believe only half of what you see, and nothing that you hear,' is a cynical saying, and yet less bitter than at first appears. It does not argue that human na…

What most people believe is thinking, is really only a different arrangement of their prejudices.