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"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."
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"Whatever you believe in, is true " at least to you! The question is, "How positive and empowering is it, especially in the face of adversity?"
"One can win only if he believes himself to be a winner."
"Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person's development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person's religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger."
"If you don't believe,nothing ever happens at all."
"Belief is indeed psychologically important for the human mind of general population, but that belief should be nicely compatible with scientific reasoning, otherwise that belief turns into prejudice, which is never beneficial to the human life."
"Just as you first eat with your eyes, you also first desire things with your subconscious mind!"
"What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!"
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"Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race."
"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live."
"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."
"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."
"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart."
"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
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