Belief

QUOTES

If it were an innocent, passive gullibility it would be excusable; but all too clearly, alas, it is an active willingness to be deceived.
 Peter Medawar
 1961

If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe.
 Chris Thornton
 sign in North Belfast school,

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
 Charles Lamb
 Essays of Elia, 1823

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
 John Henry Newman
 1848

See Also Certainty Doubt

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