"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."

-- Tryon Edwards

#Belief Quotes #Evidence Quotes #Gullibility Quotes

“The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.”

Source : "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.”
“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.”

Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1984). “The texbook”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.”
“I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.”
“Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone.”
“In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.”
“That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we will follow it.”

Source : Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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