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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
Category: Belief Author: Ezra Pound
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This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
Category: Belief Author: Orson Scott Card
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Category: Belief Author: Seneca
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
Category: Belief Author: Antonio Porchia
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Category: Belief Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Category: Belief Author: Thomas Fuller
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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Category: Belief Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Category: Belief Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
Category: Belief Author: Antonio Porchia
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Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Category: Belief Author: Felix Cohen
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Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
Category: Belief Author: John Lancaster Spalding
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Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
Category: Belief Author: Blaise Pascal
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Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
Category: Belief Author: Bertrand Russell
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When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
Category: Belief Author: Antonio Porchia
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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Category: Belief Author: Laurens van der Post
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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.
Category: Belief Author: Arthur Schweitzer
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Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
Category: Belief Author: Herbert Agar
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