"False belief" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... between "the intellectual" and "spiritual," which so many of the spiritual school affect.) not only that there may be correct belief without true faith, which, in an intelligible sense, few will deny; but that there may be a true faith with a false belief', or even with none, in the strict sense of the word. Referring to a recent acute writer in one of our religious periodicals, he argued that belief is properly an intellectual process, founded on a presumed preponderance ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers
... ostentatious art of that most erudite historian. I look in vain for his model in the skeptical Gibbon, the cynical Bolingbroke, or the gorgeous Burke. These were all to him intellectual giants; but giants of false belief and practice. Not even from Tacitus, upon whom he looked with the greatest favor, could he have acquired his burning and ...
— Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis • John A. J. Creswell
... when he was only twelve years of age. He had not been long in his position of influence and power till he turned utterly away from the Lord and began to wallow in every form of sin. There was no dirty idolatry that he did not practise. There was no false belief to which he did not seem willing to give hospitality. There was scarcely any form of evil of which he ...
— Sermons on Biblical Characters • Clovis G. Chappell
... false belief, Which gloriously show'd it; And for a morning cushionet On's mother ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... the quasi-environmental group proved to be more essentially personal than environmental, until at last it almost seemed that the environment could seldom be blamed for any important share in the process of false belief. In short, we seemed to show that environment is seldom responsible for the ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10 |
