"When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us."
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"That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind."
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"Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man."
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"I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either."
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"As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing."
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"Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all."
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"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."
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"Better a false belief than no belief at all."
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"The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief."
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"Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change"
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"The Guru and Disciple relationship is where the person has a 100% belief in the Guru and that way you put your trust in the Guru, that he's going to get you out of this mess. If you are a Christian, then Christ is your Guru, and they're all disciples of Christ."
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"The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture."
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"you cannot make a person believe anything unless that person has already had a conscious or unconscious vision of the same thing; you have no conviction of truth unless you have already apprehended it intuitively."
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"If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief."
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"Still, it formed one of my basic beliefs about success which is this: most of the time, success can be measured in terms of how much more than others you have of something that's in short supply. This includes money, reputation, respect, etc."
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"I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest."
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"A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard."
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"We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin."
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"History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood."
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"Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief."
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