"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone,……" — William Kingdon Clifford
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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30 Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford has 30 quotes on this site.
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A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded…
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that…
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he…
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or…
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which…
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is…
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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready…
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The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity…
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An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us…
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Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the…
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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it,…
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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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More Always Everywhere Quotes
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All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always…
— Clement of Alexandria
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Opportunities are always everywhere, learn to see and create them.
— Jacob Gelt Dekker
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Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer .…
— William James
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I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering.…
— David Hockney
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William James
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If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and…
— Graham Greene
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I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh…
— Graham Greene
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I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William Kingdon Clifford
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