Belief Quotes - Page 24
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com
Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.62, Shambhala Publications
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社
William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.148
William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books
The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, p.205, SteinerBooks
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'
Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
"The web of belief". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1970.
Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.114
"Historiae (Histories)". Book by Tacitus, circa 104-109 AD.
There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.
Selma Lagerlöf (1936). “Mårbacka”
Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.10, Penguin
Roger E. Olson (2009). “Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities”, p.41, InterVarsity Press