#sufficient

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#after #anything #be true #belief #believe

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#enthusiastic #goes #meet #might #out

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#believe #better #enough #forward #given

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#believers #external #israelites #jesus #make

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#itself #knowledge #lack #mature #mistook

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#based #belief #command #confident #every

What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends. ↗

— DeForest Kelley

#done #friends #having #house #i

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain. ↗

— William Vickrey

#increasingly #loss #out #prices #raise

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#civic #concerns #democratic #dependence #education