Belief Quotes

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

~ Elizabeth Hardwick

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

~ Alexis Carrel

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

~ Lea Delaria

My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.

~ Kevin Mccarthy

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

~ Robert Collier

I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.

~ Andy Biersack

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.

~ Ben Carson

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

~ Isaac Newton

Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

~ Said Nursi

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

~ Alan Lightman

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

~ Immanuel Kant

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

~ John Tuley

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

~ Margaret Atwood

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

~ Tom Shadyac

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

~ Stanley Fish

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

~ John Dewey

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

~ Blaise Pascal

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

~ Theodor Adorno

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

~ Jay-Z

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

~ Richard Dawkins

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

~ Terry Eagleton

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

~ Richard Lamm

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

~ Thomas Paine

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

~ Tommy Lee Jones

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that.

~ Peter Jackson

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

~ William Ralph Inge

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

~ Wayne Dyer

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

~ Fidel Castro

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

~ William James

Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

~ Aaron Schock

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

~ Edith Hamilton

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

~ D. Elton Trueblood

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

~ James Dean

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

~ Charles Lamb

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

~ George Carlin

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

~ W. Somerset Maugham