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Belief Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
- Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
- No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
- It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
- A man lives by believing something.
- We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs…
- The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
- What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion,…
- Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself
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- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
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