Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion."
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Rosalind Franklin
Chemist, X-ray Crystallographer
"In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see."
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."
Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself."
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"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
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"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
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"It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own."
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"Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated."
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true."
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"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs."
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"When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?"
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"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work."
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"There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough."
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"I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge."
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"It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief."
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"Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it..."
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"What you see is evidence of what you believe."
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"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."
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"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down."
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"Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief."
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"I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow."
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"Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics."
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"Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex."
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"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
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