"The will to believe is perhaps the most……" — Anthony Storr

"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute."

— Anthony Storr

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32 Quotes by Anthony Storr

Anthony Storr has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is…
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and…
All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen…
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all…
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse…
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it…
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is…
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of…
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also…
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult…
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the… — Marcus Aurelius
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities,… — Joseph Addison
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man. — Graydon Carter
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie
Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a… — B.F. Skinner
Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely… — P.G. Wodehouse
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute. — Bill Russell
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we… — Henry David Thoreau
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils. — Warren G. Harding
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. — Benjamin Disraeli
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their… — Charles Darwin

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