Belief Quotes

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Bad beliefs make bad behavior.

Examine what you believe to be impossible, and then change your beliefs.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.

The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.

Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

It really is true that you are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

A belief is an uneducated guess.

I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must, ' The youth whispers, 'I can.

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

Believe in me and you shall die, forever.

Faith is believing in something you cannot prove for certain.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

Positive words can bend your world in your favor.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of Self.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

I shall not repent of my faith.

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.