Belief Quotes
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.Theodore Roosevelt
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
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 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 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
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)
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
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
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
A belief is not true because it is useful.Henri Frdric Amiel
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.Socrates
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
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.F. F. Bosworth
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
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
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".
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
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.Henry David Thoreau
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.Margaret Atwood
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
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.Sophia Loren
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 final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.Maurice Chapelain
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)
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.William James
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.Phaedrus
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.Franklin P. Jones
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
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.Irving Layton
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.Gerry Spence
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.James Truslow Adams
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
