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
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
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
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.
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
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
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
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.William James
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.Samuel Butle
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
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
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.Margaret Atwood
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.Maurice Chapelain
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?Pliny the Elde
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
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
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.Louise Erdrich
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
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.Bhagavad Gita
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
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
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.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.Irving Layton
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
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
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
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.Peter Ustinov
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.D. Elton Trueblood
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.Thomas Paine
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
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
