Belief Quotes
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)
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.Kent Nerburn
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.Matrix, The
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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.
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
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
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.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.William James
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.Sophia Loren
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.Gerry Spence
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
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.John Stuart Mill
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
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.Bertrand Russell
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.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.George Carlin
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joseph Conrad
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
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.Max Born
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 final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.Maurice Chapelain
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 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)
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
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
