Beliefs

Famous quotes containing the word beliefs:

“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)

“If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)