"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."

William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

Belief, Deeds, Future, Guidance

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"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."

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"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."

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"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."

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"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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"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."

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"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."

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"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."

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