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1. "We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
2. "The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
3. "An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
4. "In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
5. "Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
6. "Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
7. "The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
8. "This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
9. "A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
10. "The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
11. "He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
12. "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
13. "When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
14. "Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
15. "If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
16. "We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
17. "If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
18. "No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
19. "Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it." ~ William Kingdon Clifford
20. "Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes." ~ William Kingdon Clifford

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