Unfounded Belief Quotes

Every innovation is misguidance, even if the people see it as something good.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

People think when you're struggling and not winning matches it's because you're not working hard. That's the biggest misnomer in tennis.

When any opinion leads to absurdity, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false because it is of dangerous consequence.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

It is the habit of mankind to mistake familiarity for accurate knowledge.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.

The furthest possible thing from the truth is that I hate or dislike women.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.