Lin Yutang Quotes About Belief
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The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
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Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.
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It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
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My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
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