That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.

[...most men do not try] to recognize the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are.

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

...the scepticism of men, who do not truly believe in new things unless they have actually had personal experience of them.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced themselves.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Some men <i>think</i> because they're afraid to <i>do</i>.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.