Best quotes by William Kingdon Clifford on Belief
Checkout quotes by William Kingdon Clifford on Belief
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‟ The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
- William Kingdon Clifford
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‟ To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- William Kingdon Clifford
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‟ It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- William Kingdon Clifford
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‟ No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
- William Kingdon Clifford
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‟ Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.
- William Kingdon Clifford
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‟ If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
- William Kingdon Clifford
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‟ 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