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"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
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"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
"Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances."
"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."
"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
"In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances."
"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
"I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me."
"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
Explore more quotes by William Kingdon Clifford
"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that."
"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."
"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."
"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."
"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation."
"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it."
"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
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