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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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"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?"
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"One can win only if he believes himself to be a winner."
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"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."
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"It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously."
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"True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie."
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"If you don't believe,nothing ever happens at all."
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"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."
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"Just as you first eat with your eyes, you also first desire things with your subconscious mind!"
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"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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"Never confuse belief with knowledge."
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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."
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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."
Belief
"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
Belief
"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."
Obvious
"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
Society
"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."
Experience
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
Common sense
"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."
Discovery
"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."
Belief
"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."
Belief
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