Credence Quotes

• Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It's God that heals. Time only tells.

  Beth Moore

  Giving, Too Much, Time Heals

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.74, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Memories, Men

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

  George Jean Nathan

  Atheism, Forests, Sound

  George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.5, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Independent, Certain, Existence

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• They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

  William Faulkner

  Liars, Lying, Men

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Don't believe everything you read.

  Molly Sims

  Trust, Confidence, Believe

  "Molly Sims Defends Josh Duhamel" by Brian Orloff, people.com. November 11, 2009.

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• I don't give much credence to "The Washington Post" polls.

  Eric Trump

  Giving, Polls, Posts

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.

  Epicurus

  Giving, Important, Matter

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• I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Nice, Lying, Writing

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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• Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that
  was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moving, Giving, Littles

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.695, Modern Library

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• It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence that's given to it is valid.

  Andrew Dominik

  Lying, Thinking, Information

  "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the myths propagated by the enemies of Israel is that there is an all-powerful Zionist conspiracy. That is a false accusation. Nevertheless, that AIPAC has been so successful in suppressing criticism has lent some credence to such false beliefs.

  George Soros

  Powerful, Successful, Israel

  "On Israel, America and AIPAC" by George Soros, www.nybooks.com. April 12, 2007.

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• No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.72, Vintage

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• ... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

  Alan Garner

  Block, Thinking, Waiting

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• Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Wall, Pain, Media

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• There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Half, Coincidence

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Tales of Terror and Detection”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am appaulled by the psychological damage caused by religious teachings-damage that often takes years to counteract.

  George H. Smith

  Religious, Teaching, Years

  George H. Smith (2016). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.11, Prometheus Books

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• If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.

  Alan Cohen

  Creativity, Light, Years

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• The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cat, People, Imagination

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• Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is indeed merely "a theory", albeit one with ten billion times more credence than the theory of creationism - although, to be fair, the theory of creationism is more than just a theory. It's also a fairy story. And children love fairy stories, which is presumably why so many creationists are keen to have their whimsical gibberish taught in schools.

  Charlie Brooker

  Children, School, Fairy Stories

  "When it comes to psychics, my stance is hardcore: they must die alone in windowless cells" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2006.

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• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  Euripides

  Kings, Cities, Evil

  "Bellerophon". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 425 BCE.

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• Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Lying, Thinking, Issues

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• It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

  Dan Mangan

  Giving, Challenges, Ongoing

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• I think for me, the only depressing music is music that doesn't give credence to those kinds of feelings, music that's just written for money or commercial reasons. Sad music can be the most uplifting thing in the world.

  Conor O'Brien

  Uplifting, Depressing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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