"In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives."
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"Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true."
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"The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor."
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"Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know."
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"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself."
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"Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly."
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"Belief in the lie is the life of the lie."
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"All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean."
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"That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often."
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"The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs."
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"Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct."
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"The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it."
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"Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more."
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"The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest."
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"My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal."
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"Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do."
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"Belief in limits creates limited people"
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"My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there."
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"Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people"
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"Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief."
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