“ There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
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“ I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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“ A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
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“ Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. ”
- Francis C. Kelley- Copy
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“ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. ”
- Max Born- Copy
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“ Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
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“ Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ”
- Natalie Clifford Barney- Copy
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“ Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
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“ Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. ”
- Charles Anderson Dana- Copy
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“ To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare. ”
- Jill Hennessy- Copy
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“ Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. ”
- Katherine Mansfield- Copy
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“ All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ”
- Galileo Galilei- Copy
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“ Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ”
- Irving Kristol- Copy
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“ Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool. ”
- Frank Garbutt- Copy
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“ I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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