BELIEF QUOTES V

quotations about belief


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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

THOMAS FULLER
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Gnomologia


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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ground for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

"An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish,", Unpopular Essays


A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen


Human beings believe just as they breathe -- in order to survive.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Angel's Game


Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barriers of system.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

LOUISE ERDRICH

Love Medicine


The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding


Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"Truth Will Have No Other Gods Alongside It"


Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"Declaration of Rights"


Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Price of the Ticket


I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Wise Blood


If you think that your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument, rather then by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based on faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting and distorting the minds of the young in what is called "education". This last is particularly dastardly, since it takes advantage of the defencelessness of immature minds. Unfortunately it is practiced in greater or less degree in the schools of every civilised country.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Human Society in Ethics and Politics


It's not about making sense. It's about believing in something, and letting that belief be real enough to change your life. It's about faith. You don't fix faith ... it fixes you.

JOSS WHEDON

"Jaynestown", Firefly


The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Androcles and the Lion


He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"


Knowing what our beliefs are requires confronting ourselves, our fears, and our resistance to change. Once we know what our real beliefs are, we can allow them to evolve and change if they do not serve us.

PAT. B. ALLEN

Art Is a Way of Knowing


Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Physics and Politics


An angel is a belief, with wings, and arms that can carry you. It's not to be afraid of, and if it can't hold you up, seek for something new.

TONY KUSHNER

Angels in America


Beliefs are more powerful than facts.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides


It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Neverÿon