“People are too often terrible advertisements for their own beliefs.” — Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
Tag: beliefs
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“A belief is a question we have put aside so we can get on with what we believe we have to do.” — James Richardson, Vectors
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“Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.” — Robert J. White, Living an Extraordinary Life
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“Beliefs change, and reality persists.” — Seth Godin, “A paradox of community, belief and reality,” Seth’s Blog (2020-11-20)
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“The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable—from table tapping to the superiority of their children—has never been plumbed.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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“Try to keep in mind one of the fundamental aspects of science: letting the evidence form belief rather than belief select evidence.” — Greg Craven, What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
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“It is not always wrong to believe things because many people believe them, but it is always intellectually uninquisitive to do so.” — Agnes Callard, “Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Sign Petitions,” The New York Times (2019-08-13)
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“The beliefs about right and wrong which guide our actions in dealing with men in society, and the beliefs about physical nature which guide our actions in dealing with animate and inanimate bodies, these never suffer from investigation; they can take care of themselves, without being propped up by ‘acts of faith,’ the clamour of paid advocates, or the suppression of contrary evidence.” — William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief
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“That which you believe becomes your world.” — Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
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“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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