Belief Quotes

What the wise man knows he questions but what the fool believes he sees.

~ Jason Versey

Polly?' Said Wazzer. 'Yes?''You don't believe in The Duchess, do you? I mean the real Duchess, not your inn.'Polly looked into the small, pinched, intense face. 'Well I mean, they say she's dead, and I prayed to her when I was small, but since you asked I don't exactly, um, believe as-' She gabbled.'She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder.'In the silence of the wood, Polly turned. 'I can't see her,' she said.'I am happy for you,' said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.'But I didn't see anything,' said Polly.'No,' said Wazzer. 'But you turned around.

~ Terry Pratchett

He who doesn’t believe that God can do everything believes in a god who can do something! He who knows that God is all does all things because of God, no matter what!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We all have choices. What are you choosing to believe about yourself, and about your life Believing you don't have a choice is a choice.

~ Scott Stabile

Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly aren’t saved by belief. We’re saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believe—by the one whom we confess as we believe. In a real sense, our belief is nothing in and of itself. It’s simply a looking to him, a listening to him, in which we are wholly absorbed by that which we see and hear.

~ John Webster

I don't believe in love. I love.

~ Marty Rubin

Believing is for Santa Claus, right? It's for Tooth Fairies. It's for your boyfriend when he says he's never met anyone like you and wants to feel you up. That's believing. It's for little kids. Belief. You believe in God?

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

Blind belief is a comfort; it is the frame that puts the rest of the world into context. It allows us to block out the things that don’t make sense, that which frightens us. It narrows our vision so that the world does not feel so large. Would it comfort you to have the frame of superstition? To believe that if you say the right words and sacrifice the right things, then your world will stay exactly as it is? Or do you wish to choose what you believe, what you trust and understand?

~ Cora Carmack

The wiseman knows and questions but what the fool believes he sees.

~ Jason Versey

Your level of ignorance is based on what you believe you know and your ego.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.

~ Fennel Hudson

One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that ‘they are mine...they are mine’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Are you willing to forgo your salvation for a cause which seems righteous?

~ Joan Ambu

What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?

~ Alexandra Bracken

People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.

~ Walter C. Lagner

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent?Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

~ J. Krishnamurti

Civilisations realise their moronic beliefs.But never condemn them.

~ Talees Rizvi

There is, however, a strong empirical reasonwhy we should cultivate thoughts that cannever be proved. It is that they are known tobe useful. Man positively needs general ideasand convictions that will give a meaning tohis life an d enable him to find a place forhimself in the universe. He can stand the mostincredible hardships when he is convinced thatthey make sense; he is crushed when, on topof all his misfortunes, he has to admit that heis taking part in a tale told by an idiot.

~ C.g.jung

I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. They get in the way of my belief.' If you hate Christians more than you love Christ, you do not love Christ. It comes to mind the question, 'If you do not love your brother or sister whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?

~ Criss Jami

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another’s truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!

~ W.b. Yeats

These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive rebellion is. The slaughter after the Golden Calf was worshiped. The thousands who died. The firestorm that burned the outer rim of camp when the foreigners among us incited a riot. They take for granted the miraculous water that feeds this multitude. They have eaten the manna every day of their lives and do not see the utter strangeness of it. They have not felt the desperation of thirst or the hopelessness of hunger. All they do is complain

~ Connilyn Cossette

Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines are particularly harmful. These beliefs are what we call delusions. Except unlike in a neuropsychological ailment, the delusion of the fundamentalists is not just harmful for the individuals suffering from it, but more importantly it is the greatest threat to peace, progress and wellbeing of the entire human species.

~ Abhijit Naskar

For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.

~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

~ Herta Müller

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

~ Lynda Barry

She glanced at me brieflyI looked at her longingly,so she believed Finally relieved.

~ Sumrit Shahi

These mental and physical components of self­ belief are closely interlinked. They are used to slowly interweave the per­sonal narratives that very effectively create a powerful sense of identity.

~ David Amerland

The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.

~ Richie Norton

If you truly believe in something, that is, if you care enough about it to not just dream about it, but to do something about it, your belief will bring it to you.

~ Cory Groshek

Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.

~ Fred Van Lente

If you don't believe in transcendent experience, you haven't been to the right concert, you know, you haven't used the right drugs, you haven't had sex with the right partner.

~ Bart Campolo

If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions: he may dream of training even such a person as myself, even poor Parkis, into being his saints, ready with borrowed fanaticism to destroy love wherever we find it.

~ Graham Greene

For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by his words, and if I breathed it would stop.He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertiginous moment, made me want to be better than I was.

~ Rachel Hartman

The vitality of the act was entirely obfuscated, the beauty, the terror, the sacrifice.' He took one last drag of this cigarette and put it out. 'Quite simply,' he said, 'we didn't believe. And belief was the one condition which was absolutely necessary. Belief, and absolute surrender.

~ Donna Tartt

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

~ Josh Dun

Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief …

~ Terry Pratchett