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Belief Quotes - Page 29

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 81, 1799.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (2017). “The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)”, p.1109, Clap Publishing, LLC.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.

"Children Of The Corn Syrup" by Shea Dean, www.believermag.com. October 2003.

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2005). “Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.83, Psychology Press

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

"The Fountains of Paradise". Book by Arthur C. Clarke (Chapter 35: Starglider Plus Eighty, p. 190), 1979.