We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.
Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.