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You've accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept.

— Harry Kroto

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

— Srikumar Rao

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.

— Dwight Schultz

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

— D. H. Lawrence

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

— Joan Rivers

Accept what you did do, and live with it.

— Peter Hook

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

— Marcel Duchamp