Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. – Laurens van der Post

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Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. – Felix Cohen

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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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