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Believe Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
- If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a…
- The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
- Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by…
- Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to…
- I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we…
- It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have…
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- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
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- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov