Belief Quotes

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.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

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)

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

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Irving Layton

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

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

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