Quotes on belief
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.
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Arthur Schweitzer Quotes
Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
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Blaise Pascal Quotes
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.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
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Herbert Agar Quotes
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
America's responsibility to history is to rid the world of evil.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Ezra Pound Quotes
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
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Felix Cohen Quotes
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
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Thomas Fuller Quotes
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
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Orson Scott Card Quotes
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
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John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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Andy Rooney Quotes
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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Ralph Hodgson Quotes
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
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.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
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E.D. Martin Quotes
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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Laurens van der Post Quotes