"I don't see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn't be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.''Neither do I.''Then how can you believe anything at all?''I don't know."

Belief, Truth, Doubt, Past

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"I don't see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn't be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.''Neither do I.''Then how can you believe anything at all?''I don't know."

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"Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this - and out of nothing - can still count the hairs of my head."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky."

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"You don't so much as become an atheist as find out that's what you are. There's no moment of conversion. You don't suddenly think 'I don't believe this anymore.' You essentially find you don't believe it."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Shallan's mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Never confuse belief with knowledge."

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"Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them."

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"When you allow your mind to ONLY have positive thoughts towards your desired outcome you are saying to the Universe that you are devoted to manifesting your dream."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"It is one thing to believe and another to know."

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"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"

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"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

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