"The security provided by a long-held belief system,……" — Bernard Lown
"The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit."
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Bernard Lown
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13 Quotes by Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown has 13 quotes on this site.
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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
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I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make…
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We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to…
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We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them.…
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Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do…
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In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure…
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Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered…
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As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never…
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The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment…
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Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy,…
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Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.
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Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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