Belief Quotes
Blind belief is dangerous.Kenyan Prove
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.Socrates
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.Charles Robert Darwin
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.James R. Lowell
God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.Real Live Preache
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.Theodore Roosevelt
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.Samuel Butle
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.Thomas Fulle
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.Ellen G. White
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.William James
The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce
A belief is not true because it is useful.Henri Frdric Amiel
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joseph Conrad
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.William James
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.Phaedrus
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.Johann von Goethe
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.Peggy Noonan
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.W. Somerset Maugham
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.John Stuart Mill
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.Harry S Truman
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.Andr Dubus
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.Bartholomew
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
