“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
Clarice Lispector book The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
“She believed, of course… because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
— Rosamunde Pilcher, book The Shell Seekers
Source: The Shell Seekers
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Robyn Dawes (1936–2010) American psychologist
Source: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 6, “Three Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgment” (p. 106)
“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.”
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Letter to William Eustis http://books.google.com/books?id=S088AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA319 (22 June 1809), published in Writings of John Quincy, Adams (1914), The Macmillan company. <br class="br">Variant: All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
