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“In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.”

Firsts States Belief Military Army Stronger Defeat Partners Campaigns Latter Collapse

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“I have done much reporting in what might be termed the religious field. I have interviewed dozens of people-maybe hundreds-asking questions about their beliefs. Some impressed me more than others, but it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the gift of faith (and I think it is a gift) is the most valuable one of all. People who have it are stronger-and kinder-and more unselfish-and happier. It's as simple (and as mysterious) as that.”

People Thinking Done Might Faith Belief Religious Simple Impossible Fields Stronger Asking Valuable Conclusion Mysterious Dozen Impressed Asking Questions Unselfish Kinder

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.”

Men Belief Accepting Greater Atheism Stronger Constant Positive Atheism Characteristics Intolerance Tolerate Certitude

Book:Gustave Le Bon, the man and his works: a presentation with introduction, first translations into English, and edited extracts

Source: Gustave Le Bon, the man and his works: a presentation with introduction, first translations into English, and edited extracts

“The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.”

Ideas Reason Facts Belief Doubt Impossible Failing Source Stronger Proof Probability Contradictory Demonstration Pretext

Author:Andrew Michael Ramsay

“Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.”

Trying Facts Science Belief Views Teach Atheism Evidence Stronger Careful Aspiration Be Careful Conform Hostile Preconceptions

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley

“To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in decency and justice and progress and the value of individual liberty because of the rights conferred on each of us by our Creator that willcarry us through.... There must be something in the heart as well as the head.”

World Wells Heart Spiritual Values Individual Belief Justice Liberty Rights Progress Stronger Creator Peaceful Decency Prosperous Individual Liberty

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower