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Belief Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford
- A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our…
- An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various…
- If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
- The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support…
- This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has…
- If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise…
- In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may…
- Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.
- Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful…
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- 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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