Believe Quote by Socrates Download Open image “To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believe Demonstration Evidence Folly Ignorance
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“the weight of evidence ‘cannot convince those who do not wish to believe” — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“And besides, it feels more covert to have no evidence. To believe that something you’ve experienced will build on your extent—your extent as a… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that… — Socrates Copy Share
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody… — Bradley Wright-Phillips Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
That's why I don't generally talk about endorsements because I don't believe we have to tell people who to vote for. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image