Belief Quotes
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.Andr Dubus
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.Peggy Noonan
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.A. Huxley, Island
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
Blind belief is dangerous.Kenyan Prove
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.George Carlin
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
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.John Stuart Mill
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
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
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
Belief is the death of intelligence.Robert Anton Wilson
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
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...Plato, _Phaedrus_
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.George Santayana
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
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
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.Johann von Goethe
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
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.James R. Lowell
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
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
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.
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
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
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.Harry S Truman
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
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
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
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.Thomas Paine
