Belief Quotes

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.

~ Tahir Shah

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

~ Michael Faraday

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.

~ Gary Shteyngart

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically everydoctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for thesethings, which were originally intended as pointers, were nowbeing taken as descriptions.He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage pointsto the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

~ Anthony De Mello

People act what they truly believe.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

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

~ William Kingdon Clifford

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

~ Po Bronson

I personally believe this: We have only today, yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.

~ Ace Frehley

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

~ Margaret Atwood

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

~ Anonymous

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

~ Christopher Nolan

Belief traps or frees us.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.

~ Neil Gaiman

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The strong belief can make things out of imagination.But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.

~ Toba Beta

The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subversive becomes just another pre-packaged lifestyle on special offer. So Cease to Resist. Relax and enjoy the PandaemonAeon. Believe everything and anything. Seek not proof, but take pleasure in your choice of belief. Wipe that superior sneer of your face and try smiling (if only inwardly) at the people/institutions/beliefs that you've waged your personal war against. Wouldn't it be more fun if you didn't run around quite so hard trying to be an individual, or fighting to prove or uphold your chosen belief-system?

~ Phil Hine

In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.

~ Michelle Sagara West

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

~ Albert Camus

Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe.

~ R.c. Sproul

The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.

~ Jackson Burnett

Lots of people like rainbows. Children make wishes on them, artists paint them, dreamers chase them, but the Aquarian is ahead of everybody. He lives on one. What's more, he's taken it apart and examined it, piece by piece, color by color, and he still believes in it. It isn't easy to believe in something after you know what it's really like, but the Aquarian is essentially a realist, even though his address is tomorrow, with a wild-blue-yonder zip code.

~ Linda Goodman

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

~ Stanisław Lem

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

~ Bertrand Russell

I think maybe miracles are something everybody has to find out about for themselves. Telling them about it doesn’t make them believe. It just makes them think you’re crazy as a bessie bug.

~ Jenny Wingfield

One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.

~ John Stuart Mill

Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

~ Michael Pollan

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The last thing I heard before falling asleep was, Everything is okay now.No matter how much I wanted to believe Stellan, I knew he was terribly wrong.

~ Markelle Grabo

That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.

~ C.l. Allen

Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can't do it, you can't do it. It's a simple formula!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.

~ Toba Beta

The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.

~ Will Advise

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

~ Terry Pratchett

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, God. The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

~ A.w. Tozer

To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of

~ T.c. Boyle