Credence Quotes

• ... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Phenomenon
  • Dictum
  • Arthur Koestler`s

• Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Possible
  • Outdoors
  • Credence

• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  

  Euripides
  • Lives
  • Kill
  • Credence

• They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Liar
  • Deceive
  • Selfconvicted

• I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Evidence
  • Historian
  • Existing