An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others,… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege,… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of an elastic… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
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