belief Quotes

“The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

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“I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

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“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than...”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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“nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know;”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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“it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

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“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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