Belief Quotes
Belief is the death of intelligence.Robert Anton Wilson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.William James
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.Henry David Thoreau
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.Socrates
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.Gerry Spence
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
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
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
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
The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.Johann von Goethe
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
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
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
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
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
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.John Schumake
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
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
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
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.Andr Dubus
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
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".
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
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
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
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.F. F. Bosworth
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)
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.William James
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)
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.Henry Louis Mencken
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
