Belief Quotes

He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil...

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is hersel...

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opi...

I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my se...

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

The moment one definitely commits oneself the Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to h...

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in...

I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believe...

He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he ...

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forc...

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

From my college courses and my reading I knew the various names that came at the end of a line of qu...

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for ...

Not only do I not know what I believe, but also I cannot know for sure that I believe. How can I def...

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even ...

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.

It's simpler to believe in a miracle.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

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

Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, o...

Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. Our ...

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily al...

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of d...

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great har...

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I w...

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing...

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be ...

A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It ...

Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to b...

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you...

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover....

Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to bel...

Because you cannot see him God is everywhere.

All tastes are expressions of belief.

But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means tha...

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is...

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holid...

All money is a matter of belief.

All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies,...

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowle...

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have alt...

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason c...

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own ...

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction...

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a...

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which ...

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, o...

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's...

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, f...

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, th...

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only ...

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear....

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed ...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - t...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- ...

Spirituality is not adopting more beliefs and assumptions but uncovering the best in you.

Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be assoc...

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(Fr...

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancien...

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a...

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who ...

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you wil...

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requ...

I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find...

It could be that God has absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have ...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in t...

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot ...

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically everydoctrine, every belief, every concept of ...

Man is what he believes.