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- What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech at the House of Commons, January 24, 1860
- Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
- Paul Eldridge
- In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
- Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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