#knowledge vs belief

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"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

If we don't know or can't know, it's better to not know than to believe.

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"I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe but because I want to know. I believe that the truth is out there. But how can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science."

-- Michael Shermer

Belief < Knowledge.

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"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."

-- Robert Anton Wilson

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“Why believe when you can know?

..I would like to put the whole idea of faith and belief away.

Let's try to find out things.”

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

True things don’t require faith.

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There’s no polite way to tell you that it doesn’t matter what you “believe.”

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Do you “believe” in the digestive or reproductive processes? Or do you accept them as being accurate?

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“I don’t want to believe, I want to know.”

-- Carl Sagan

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