Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought — William Kingdon Clifford
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and — William Kingdon Clifford
Scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. — William Kingdon Clifford
A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental — William Kingdon Clifford
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences — William Kingdon Clifford
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles — William Kingdon Clifford
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future. — William Kingdon Clifford
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the — William Kingdon Clifford
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. — William Kingdon Clifford
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be — William Kingdon Clifford
Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good — William Kingdon Clifford
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: — William Kingdon Clifford
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you — William Kingdon Clifford
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of — William Kingdon Clifford
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. — William Kingdon Clifford
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the buddha have at least — William Kingdon Clifford
We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do — William Kingdon Clifford
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — William Kingdon Clifford
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure — William Kingdon Clifford
Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it. — William Kingdon Clifford
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. — William Kingdon Clifford
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough — William Kingdon Clifford
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has — William Kingdon Clifford
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is — William Kingdon Clifford