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“Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.”

Mind Made Reason Seems Belief Ignorance Simplicity Conviction Impression Attributes Facility

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.”

World Two Political Politics Simple Atheism Ignorance Politician Conviction Prime Ingredients Villain Extremism Diagnosis Political Extremism

Author:John W. Gardner

“Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.”

Men Real Helping Humanity Order Doubt Ignorance Bears Infinite Conviction Judged Infinite Love

Author:Meher Baba

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.”

Humans Doe Reason Religious Powerful Ignorance Truth Is Constant Killing Seeking Conviction Sole Compelling Recognizing Merciful Being Me Variables Compelling Reason Irreligion

Author:David Bentley

“To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners; To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer. Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie; Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.”

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Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.”

Ifs Mind Dream Night Mistake Wonder Events Produce Ignorance Ought Philosophical Conviction Every Night Coincidence Verification

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.”

Source: Works

“A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”

Children Reason Feelings Suffering Imagination Ignorance Degrees Adults Capacity Conviction Intense Helplessness

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)

“So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.”

Feels Should Home Opinion Journey Ignorance Importance Conviction Certainty Replaced Back Again Stay At Home Spectacles

Author:Aldous Huxley

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”

Men Education Ignorance Suicide Conviction Educational Envy Every Man Imitation Self Reliance Reliance

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”

World Ability Ignorance Foundation Conviction Secure Make Sense Unlimited Comforting

Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow