“Just because something is convincing, that does not make it true. It is merely convincing.”
Karl Schroeder book Ventus
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 15 (p. 227)
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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/portrait/wh01.html (1889)
“Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.”
John Boyne book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
“Just because you know a thing is true in theory, doesn't make it true in fact.”
Harry Harrison (1925–2012) American science fiction author
Source: Deathworld (1960), p. 151
Context: Just because you know a thing is true in theory, doesn't make it true in fact. The barbaric religions of primitive worlds hold not a germ of scientific fact, though they claim to explain all. Yet if one of these savages has all the logical ground for his beliefs taken away — he doesn't stop believing. He then calls his mistaken beliefs 'faith' because he knows they are right. And he knows they are right because he has faith. This is an unbreakable circle of false logic that can't be touched. In reality, it is plain mental inertia. A case of thinking 'what always was' will also 'always be.' And not wanting to blast the thinking patterns out of the old rut.
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.”
Viggo Mortensen (1958) American actor
Euronews, Culture, Cinema, "Viggo Mortensen honoured at Marrakech Film Festival", http://www.euronews.com/2014/12/11/viggo-mortensen-honoured-at-marrakech-film-festival/ (December 11, 2014).
“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”
Christopher Hitchens Mortality
Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012), p. 91.
“It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.”
Elmore Leonard book Freaky Deaky
Source: Freaky Deaky
“Just because it has always been that way does not mean that it will always be so.”
Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)