BELIEF QUOTES III

quotations about belief

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

ANNE ENRIGHT

The Gathering


Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The God Delusion


I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair


Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk


To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

HENRI POINCARé

Of Science and Hypotheses


There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Notes from a Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Control of Your Life


Men that believe only what they understand can write their creed on a postage stamp.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The God Delusion


We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.

JOHN PERRY BARLOW

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace


Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom


With how much ease believe we what we wish!

JOHN DRYDEN

Cleopatra


If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Obsidian Butterfly


We are trained to believe and not to know.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino


But I was commanded to believe; and yet it corresponded not with what had been established by calculations and my own sight.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions


The less you know the more you believe.

U2

"Last Night on Earth"


It will be whatever it is, no? Nothing, something -- our believing one thing or another will matter not at all in the end.

SCOTT SMITH

The Ruins


The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Price of the Ticket


Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

RAY BRADBURY

The October Country


The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

LIN YUTANG

The Importance of Living


If we can once believe that success is possible, success becomes possible.

FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP

Success: A Course in Moral Instruction