Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
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