There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.
We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.
No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football. '
We in Europe. . . do not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.