Belief Quotes

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James R. Lowell

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

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

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 final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.

Maurice Chapelain

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

William James