Belief Quotes
Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
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
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
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
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 final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.Maurice Chapelain
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...Plato, _Phaedrus_
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.Margaret Atwood
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?Pliny the Elde
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.A. Huxley, Island
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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.Bertrand Russell
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 bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.Thomas Paine
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".
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
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.Socrates
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.Henry Louis Mencken
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.D. Elton Trueblood
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A belief is not true because it is useful.Henri Frdric Amiel
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.James Truslow Adams
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
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.James R. Lowell
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.Jonathan Berry
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
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.Irving Layton
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
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
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
