Quotes about Belief

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Augustus De Morgan (1806 - 1871)	My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that: they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)	I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Claud Cockburn (1904 - 1981)	Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
Elie Wiesel	Every name has something immortal and eternal about it which defies time - (from The Gates of the Forest)
Elie Wiesel	It is always dangerous to talk. A man says yes, a man says no, and finally he ends up saying almost anything to fill up the silence and stop the beating of his heart. - (from The Gates of the Forest)
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)	The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Carlin (1938 - )	Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)	The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief accupation of mankind.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1990)	Oh, what a tangled web we weave / When first we practice to believe.
Robert Anton Wilson (1932 - 2007)	Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Solomon Short (David Gerrold)	What's the difference between belief and science? Belief is conviction without evidence. Science is evidence without conviction.
Walt Haskins	Those who might be momentarily inhibited by the saying- “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” might be encouraged to make three or four more. - (Author "Comments USA")

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