Belief Quotes
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
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.Maurice Chapelain
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joseph Conrad
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
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.Bhagavad Gita
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
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.James Thurbe
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
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
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.Thomas Paine
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
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
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.Peter Ustinov
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.James R. Lowell
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.Maurice Chapelain
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
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
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)
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
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.George Carlin
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.Thomas Fulle
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.Charles Robert Darwin
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.Irving Layton
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
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
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
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)
