Pride breeds conviction rather than doubt,

We prefer truth over facts.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

We prefer ourselves always to those with whom we intend to live, and they almost always perceive the preference.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

American spirituality has always favored the direct over the inferred, the immediate over the gradual.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one’s opinions confirmed.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire