Accepting Quote by William Butler Yeats

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and…

— Andrew Jackson

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

— Margaret Atwood

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and…

— George MacDonald

“We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what underpins these…

— Stephen McAndrew

If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e.,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon…

— James Harvey Robinson

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

— Francis Bacon

“Belief is what you are prepared to accept.”

— Steven Redhead

The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired…

— Adam Smith

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

— Anonymous

“It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working…

— Spencer A. Rathus