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Rationality Quotes July 2011

by Normal_Anomaly

3rd Jul 2011

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Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.

-- Yeshua ben-Yosef (attributed), on the importance of seeing the winds of evidence instead of waiting for absolute proof.

[anonymous]15y00

Personally, I always favored this one:

I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? (John 3:12)

Of course, this one nicely cuts both ways.

14Desrtopa15y

That doesn't sound to me like a very honest way of interpreting the quote. It's one thing to laud an appropriate degree of deference to evidence, and another to praise acceptance of a belief on little or no strong evidence.