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Belief Quotes
"It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying."
92
"The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives. They have both locked themselves up in two boxes, painted inside with the sun and stars; they are both unable to get out, the one into the health and happiness of heaven, the other even into the health and happiness of the earth."
59
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
57
"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."
47
"Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies."
42
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
40
"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live."
40
"You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?"
40
"In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty."
39
"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."
39
"A belief is an uneducated guess."
38
"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary."
37
"Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves."
36
"I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing."
35
"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts."
35
"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."
34
"When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going."
33
"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
32
"I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit."
32
"Believe that there are no limits. Manifest your best reality."
32
"There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened."
32
"I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals."
31
"Miracles happen to those who believe in them."
31
"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."
30
"I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out."
30
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."
30
"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."
30
"If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"
30
"If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist."
30
"Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
29
"It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us."
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