Belief Quotes

Franklin d. roosevelt, first inaugural address, mar. 4, 1933 - first of all, let me assert my firm belief that...
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
Jack handey deep thoughts - contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous...
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
George Santayana
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
Franklin p. jones - an atheist is one who hopes the lord will do...
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
Phaedrus
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)
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
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
John Gunthe
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
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Andr Dubus
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
James Truslow Adams
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Walter Bagehot
The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
George Walker Bush
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
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".
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
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
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
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
Johann von Goethe
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
Matrix, The
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
Janet Jackson
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
What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.
Phil Donahue
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
A belief is not true because it is useful.
Henri Frdric Amiel
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".
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
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
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Wilde
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