Quote by Walter Scott
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as wel

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. – Walter Scott

Other quotes by Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart thats broken! – Walter Scott

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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. – Walter Scott

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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion. – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989

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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. – Alan Turing

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck

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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. – Abraham Lincoln

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