Belief quotes

The Revisionist lives dangerously. Police, judges and journalists lurk in wait for him. He may end up in prison - or the hospital. He risks economic ruin for himself and his family. Little of that matters to him. He lives, he dreams, he imagines. He feels that he is free. It's not that he cherishes illusions about the impact of his findings. These frighten everyone; they are too much in contradiction to accepted knowledge. These findings strike at two great human mysteries: the general mystery of fear, and the specific mystery of the need for belief, belief in something, no matter what. The Adventure of Revisionism Professor Robert Faurisson

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?----Robert Anthony

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that of which we know least."—Montaigne.

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."-----Nietzsche

"Man is what he believes."---Chekov

"With most people unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another."--Lichtenberg

"All human beings...are programmed biocomputers.....each one of us may be our programmes, nothing more, nothing less."--John Lilly MD (Simulations of God, 1972)

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind there are no limits."--John Lilly (1972)

"For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.-------Dr Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred. - Bertrand Russell, Unpopular essays

"We see only what we know."---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A person hears only what they understand. "---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the entire history of man, no one has ever been brainwashed and realized, or believed, that he had been brainwashed. Those who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend their manipulators, claiming they have simply been "shown the light" . . . or have been transformed in miraculous ways. The Battle for Your Mind: Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public By Dick Sutphen