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| What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~ Ezra Pound |
| This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. ~ Orson Scott Card |
| Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~ Seneca |
| Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., |
| He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~ Thomas Fuller |
| The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. ~ Robert Brault |
| Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, |
| He who does not know how to believe, should not know. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
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| Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~ Felix Cohen |
| Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ~ John Lancaster Spalding |
| Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. ~ Blaise Pascal, |
| Not… what opinions are held, but… how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. ~ Bertrand Russell, |
| When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. ~ Laurens van der Post |
| Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~ Ralph Hodgson, |
| I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. ~ Robert Brault |
| Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. ~ Arthur Schweitzer, |
| It is easier to believe than to doubt. ~ E.D. Martin, |
| Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. ~ Herbert Agar |
| Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~ Bertrand Russell |