Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!
Tag: humor impossible beliefs breakfast
My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand RussellTag: philosophy belief skepticism desire wish beliefs
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret MeadTag: information beliefs
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Mark TwainTag: politics religion beliefs
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Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone.
But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying – even more terrible than dying young.
Tag: courage sacrifice beliefs
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
Albert CamusTag: religion superstition beliefs
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Blaise PascalTag: prejudice subjectivity evidence beliefs proof persuasion attractivenessiveness
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson IITag: politics ignorance forgiveness beliefs
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Gautama BuddhaRegimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
Ronald ReaganTag: peace ideals values ideas resolve beliefs wills
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