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Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
Emily Bronte
What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true or false I call its objective, and the relation of the belief to its objective I call the reference or the objective reference of the belief. Thus, if I believe that Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492, the objective of my belief is Columbus's actual voyage, and the reference of my belief is the relation between my belief and the voyage--that relation, namely, in virtue of which the voyage makes my belief true (or, in another case, false). Reference of beliefs differs from meaning of words in various ways, but especially in the fact that it is of two kinds, true reference and false reference. The truth or falsehood of a belief does not depend upon anything intrinsic to the belief, but upon the nature of its relation to its objective. The intrinsic nature of belief can be treated without reference to what makes it true or false.http://www.literaturepage.com/read/russell-analysis-of-mind-165.html
Bertrand Russell, The Analysis o
Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.
Karl Weick
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
Ralph B. Perry
Seeing is not always believing.
Rod Serling
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Sigmund Freud
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
Joel A. Barker
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes
Colonel Kane: You're convinced that God is dead because there's evil in the world. Captain Cutshaw: Correct. Colonel Kane: Then why don't you think He's alive because of the goodness in the world?
William Peter Blatty, The Ninth
In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Louis Kronenberger
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
Jim Bakker
It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H. L. Mencken
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
Calvin Coolidge
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James Barrie
More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
James Russell Lowell
