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Hannah Senesh: “One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
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Edith Hamilton: “Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Bertrand Russell: “What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
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Buddha: “Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.”  more
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.
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Isaiah Berlin: “Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
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Thomas Jefferson: “The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
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Adlai Stevenson: “What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.”  more
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Mark Twain: “In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”  more
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Voltaire: “As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
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Alfred Korzybski: “There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
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Andre Gide: “Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
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Philip K. Dick: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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Sydney J. Harris: “An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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Barbara De Angelis: “Living with integrity means:
  • Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.
  • Asking for what you want and need from others.
  • Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
  • Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
  • Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Michael Korda: “To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
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Demosthenes: “Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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