Conviction

Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

Certainty

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Charles Darwin

Not malice

Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Napolean Bonaparte



or


It's easy to mistake conspiracy for collective stupidity - because the results can be identical.
C W

Religion

Though enemies seek
Summer's cricket must sing.
In sect, we are alike.

Sin

Arrogance is an easy sin,

I, even I,

Have fallen in.