If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and
William Kingdom Clifford (1845-1879) English mathematician and philosopher
the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it
The Ethics of Belief (1877)
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