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Believe 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…
- The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and…
- He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already…
- Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person…
- No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
- 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…
- 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…
- To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov