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“My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.”

Believe Mean I Can Facts Opinion Mankind Thousand Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Ontology

Book:A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan

Source: A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan

“Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.”

Believe Reason Animal Half Theory Thousand Ten Creatures Doctors Jungle Ants Blueprints Giraffe

Book:The collected poems of John Ciardi

Source: The collected poems of John Ciardi

“I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no solution to it. There are a thousand and one ways you can go about it. There's no set rule.”

Way Believe Problem I Believe Interesting Thousand Solutions One Way Permanent Formal

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. ... It would be far, far better for us to let a thousand devils roam the world, and publicly preach the doctrine of devils (if there were such a thing, which there isn't), than to let one impostor and monster such a Moses, Joshua, Samuel or the Bible prophets come speaking the so-called word of God, and causing men to believe it.”

Ifs Men World Believe Humans Would Be Race Thousand Devil Misery Monsters Horrible Doctrine Cruelty Human Race Prophet Revelations Word Of God Wickedness Moses

Author:Thomas Paine

“I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.”

Men Way Believe Children Real Faces Fighting Sex Ability Danger Thousand Shadow Fairs Charm Frightened Hiding Ratios Unafraid Inverse Prowess Hiding In The Shadows

Book:Under the Moons of Mars

Source: Under the Moons of Mars

“Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.”

Believe Written Thousand Ten Authority Credit Believe In Me

Book:The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes

Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes

“I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.”

Ifs Believe I Can Home Cry Thousand Flying Sail

Author:Tori Amos