Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. – Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932 Category: Belief
More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum Category: Belief
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. – Laurens van der Post Category: Belief
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important. – Roberto Benigni Category: Learning