BELIEF

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully
as when they do it for conscience sake. …….Blaise Pascal,

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than
when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. ……….Laurens van der Post

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ……… Henry David Thoreau

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. …….Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few,
is their ability to act according to their beliefs. ……….Henry Miller

Old Beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. ………..E. O. Wilson

So we fix our eyes not on what we see, but what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. ….2 Corinthians 4:18

Believe that life is worth living;
and your belief will help create the fact. …..William James

What matters is not the ideas a man holds,
But the depth of Belief at which he holds it. …..Ezra Pound

Everyman prefers Belief to the exercise of judgment. ……Seneca

He does not believe, who does not live according to his Belief. …..Thomas Fuller

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ……… Henry David Thoreau

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few,
is their ability to act according to their beliefs. ……….Henry Miller

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity,
and never the correctness, of a Belief. ……Albert Schnitzer, MD

Old Beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. ………..E. O. Wilson

Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to Believe. ……Euripides

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

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false Beliefs. …..Ludwig Von Mises

The Belief of a supernatural source of evil is not necessary;
Men alone, are quite capable of every wickedness. …..Joseph Conrad

I always divide people into two groups:
Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and
Those who live by what they Believe, falsely, to be the truth. ……Christopher Hampton

Christ’s grave was the birthplace of an indestructible Belief;
That death is vanquished and there is eternal life. ……John Seiden

One person with a Belief is equal to a force
Of ninety-nine who have only interests. ……John Stuart Mills

Believe in something, Believe in yourself. ……Tupak Shakur
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