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#belief

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #belief




Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. ↗


— William Faulkner


#memory #recollection #belief

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily. ↗


— Rachel Hartman


#belief

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. ↗


— Ursula K. Le Guin


#knowledge #belief

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. ↗


— Isaac Asimov


#television

Look, Aerin, preparation is only half the challenge of winning a debate.” “And the other half?” He had her now. “You have to choose the right side.” “Your side, you mean.” She bristled. “No, the losing side.” “What?” “Always choose the weaker side.” “Why would I do that?” Doubt edged her voice, but now she was sitting erect, her feet flat on the floor. “Because then you have further to go to prove your case.” He eased the feet of his chair down. “In a debate, there are two sides. If both make a good argument, then the less popular side wins because that side had further to go to prove its point. Simple logistics.” “If you don’t care which side wins.” She frowned. “It’s a debate. It doesn’t matter which side wins.” “You mean it doesn’t matter to you.” The tone in her voice unsettled him. Or maybe it was the fact that that her criticism disturbed him at all. “It’s a class,” he said. “The point is to flesh out the different sides of an argument.” “And you don’t care if the truth gets lost in the shuffle. Don’t you believe in anything?! ↗


— Anne Osterlund


#belief #debate #debating #challenge

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. ↗


— Anonymous


#brotherhood #islam #islam

We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you. ↗


— Veronica Roth


#bravery #freedom

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ↗


— Thomas Carlyle


#unbelief #yourself

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief. ↗


— Martha Beck


#chose #edged #every #i #me

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. ↗


— Henry Bessemer


#belief #bias #control #dealing #derived






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