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William Kingdon Clifford has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a…
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should…
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not…
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits…
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can…
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…
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The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the…
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An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe…
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Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions…
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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has…
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If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
— William Ellery Channing
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Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the…
— Sadako Ogata
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't…
— Pema Chodron
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Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at…
— Vaclav Havel
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust…
— Andrew Weil
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Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old -…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and…
— David Hume
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Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
— Dalai Lama
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