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Seek not to understand that you may believe,
but believe that you may understand.
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-A rewording of Isaiah 7:9
KJV
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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not
also how to un-know.
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-Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Man is what he believes.
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-Anton Chekhov
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close
and mathematical relation to each other.
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-James Fenimore Cooper
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It is sufficient, I think, to live by
experience, and without subscribing to beliefs.
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-Sextus Empiricus
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~He does not believe that
does not act according to his belief.
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-Thomas Fuller
Gnomologia, 1732
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The eyes believe themselves; the ears
believe other people.
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-German Proverb
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*What does it mean to
believe, to hold an opinion? It certainly doesn't mean merely that we say we
do. It means something very deep. It means that deep down, we think that such
and such is True. It refers to a state of mind which we are powerless to
choose.
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-Steve Hagen
How The World Can Be The Way It Is: An
Inquiry for the New Millenium into Science, Philosophy, and
Perception, 1995
Ch. 1, "Belief", "The Trouble with Believing"
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*[T]he very fact that we
don't all believe the same thing is enough to draw all beliefs into
question.
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-Steve Hagen
How The World Can Be The Way It Is: An
Inquiry for the New Millenium into Science, Philosophy, and
Perception, 1995
Ch. 1, "Belief", "Confusing What We Believe with Truth"
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A superstition is a premature explanation
that overstays its time.
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-George Iles
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*Oh, what tangled webs
we weave when first we practice to believe!
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-Laurence J. Peter
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our
Time, 1977
"Belief"
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Whenever masses of people, especially educated
people, know something--and what they know is something they greatly fear
because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do--
then most likely we stand in the presence of a vast falsehood.
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-Thomas Szasz
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Belief is a form of security, a bastion
against the discovery of truth.
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-Unknown
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If there were a verb meaning 'to believe
falsely,' it would not have any significant first person, present
indicative.
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-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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