Belief Quotes
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.William James
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.Robert Lynd
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?Pliny the Elde
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.Henry David Thoreau
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.Richard Adams
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.John Maynard Keynes
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.Rainer Maria Rilke
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.James Thurbe
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.George Carlin
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.Irving Layton
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Belief is the death of intelligence.Robert Anton Wilson
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.Franklin P. Jones
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.Walter Bagehot
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.George Santayana
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.Ronald Reagan
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
If the belief in Christianity did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.D. Elton Trueblood
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.William James
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
