True Belief

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or belief:

“Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)