Abandon Quote by Anonymous

Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is…

— Voltaire

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

— Maynard James Keenan

Fundamentalism, in and of itself, is benign and can be personally beneficial, but the anger and prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can permanently damage…

— Ricky Ray

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings…

— Carl Jung

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

— Jena Malone

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role…

— Richard Wiseman

Beliefs and thoughts alter cells in your body.

— Bruce H. Lipton

Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection…

— Sigmund Freud

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing…

— Sophia Lyon Fahs