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Quotations by Subject: Belief (23 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.: John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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