George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Belief
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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Any belief worth having must survive doubt
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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.
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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
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