Belief Quotes
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.Margaret Atwood
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.Henry Besseme
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
A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.Epicurus
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.Henry David Thoreau
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
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.Phaedrus
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.Bhagavad Gita
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.
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
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.Gerry Spence
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
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
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
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
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.
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.D. H. Lawrence
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.Bertrand Russell
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.Thomas Fulle
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.Sophia Loren
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
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
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.Henry Louis Mencken
