True Believer Quotes - Page 3

• Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

  Jane Haddam

  Opposites, Nuggets, Littles

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• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Mind, Snooping

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

  Abu Bakr

  Affliction, Believer, Caliphs

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• The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Humble, Pride

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

  Eric Hoffer

  War, Men, People

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Atheist, Opposites

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Vanity

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

  King Hussein I

  Struggle, Here I Am, Departure

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• Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
  They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.

  Seth Godin

  Delight, Skeptic, Believer

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• Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Party, Faithful

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

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• The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Society, Technique

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Power, Weakness

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Winning, Generosity, Weakness

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Stripes, Delight, Might

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• In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

  Gore Vidal

  Politician, Believer, Improvisation

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

  James Randi

  May, Matter, Belief

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• Coincidence is the science of the true believer.

  Chet Raymo

  Coincidence, Believer

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• The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission;he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Self, Iron

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• One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Knowing, Agnostic, Journalism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

  Mark Thomas

  Religion, Atheism, Belief

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• True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

  Mark Thomas

  Reality, Coping Mechanisms, Religion

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• There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

  Upton Sinclair

  Order, Heaven, Religion

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

  Augustus Toplady

  Church, Going To Church, Believer

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.274

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• I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.

  Charlize Theron

  Way, Should, Believer

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