Belief Congruence Theory

Famous quotes containing the words belief, congruence and/or theory:

“Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive
of one’s attending upon you; but to question
the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.”
—Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)