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Beliefs
It is wrong always, everywhere
and for everyone to believe anything
upon insufficient evidence.
?W.K. Clifford
It is always easier to believe
than to deny. Our minds are
naturally affirmative.
?John Burroughs
The practical effect of a belief
is the real test of its soundness.
?James A. Froude
We are born believing.
A man bears beliefs,
as a tree bears beauty.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
One person with a belief is
equal to a force of ninety-nine
who have only interests.
?John Stuart Mill
Nothing is so firmly believed
as what we least know.
?Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Man can believe the impossible,
but can never believe the improbable.
?Oscar Wilde
Martyrdom has always been
a proof of the intensity, never
of the correctness of a belief.
?Arthur Schnitzler
What is wanted is not the will to
believe, but the wish to find out,
which is the exact opposite.
?Bertrand Russell
Believe that life is worth living, and
your belief will help create the fact.
?William James
