"If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief."
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"Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
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"It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions."
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"Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly."
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"Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief."
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"The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone."
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"Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true."
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"The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."
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"Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works."
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"Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system."
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"Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief."
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"I do not believe in Belief."
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"Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief."
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"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."
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"I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me"
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"I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage."
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"No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it."
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"The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all."
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"Your action has nothing to do with your abundance! Your abundance is a response to your vibration. Of course, your belief is part of your vibration. So if you believe that action is part of what brings your abundance, then you've got to unravel that."
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"A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence."
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