#lievin

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#believe #believing #everybody #far #good

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believing #blinded #fall #fallible #human

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#better #big #grew #i #know

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#fundamentally #grew #i #powerless #up

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#believing #convenient #fundamentally #gradually #grew

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#believing #i #lately #music #speech

Thank you to country radio for believing in me. ↗

— Hunter Hayes

#country #country radio #me #radio #thank

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#finding #loss #funny

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#force #gravitation #same

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. ↗

— David Hume

#believing #christian #essential #first #letters