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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw
Believe, Want, Belief

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

George Bernard Shaw
Change, Belief, Changed

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

George Bernard Shaw
Our Society, Belief, Dangerous
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2307, e-artnow

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

George Bernard Shaw
Believe, Belief
George Bernard Shaw (2005). “Plays Unpleasant”, p.27, Penguin UK

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

George Bernard Shaw
Victory, Belief, Rebirth

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

George Bernard Shaw
Power, Cynical, Belief
"Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World, Volume 27 (The World (18 July 1894))". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1931.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

George Bernard Shaw
Education, Eye, Belief

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

George Bernard Shaw
Doubt, Belief

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

George Bernard Shaw
True Or False, Belief, Stability

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

George Bernard Shaw
Self, May, Belief
"The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw, p. 214, 1928.

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