Colin Wilson Believe Quotations

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.