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- Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
- He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
- Author Unknown
- He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.
- Hindoo Maxim
- Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
- Alan Watts
- I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe
- Leo Rosten (1908 - )
- If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
- C. C. Colton
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