Belief Quotes V

BELIEF QUOTES V

quotations about belief

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barriers of system.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner

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If you want to know what your true beliefs are, take a look at your actions.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Think Big

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An angel is a belief, with wings, and arms that can carry you. It's not to be afraid of, and if it can't hold you up, seek for something new.

TONY KUSHNER

Angels in America

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Price of the Ticket

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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

LOUISE ERDRICH

Love Medicine

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To learn a belief without belief is to sing a song without the tune.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Telling

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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Physics and Politics

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The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The Celtic Twilight

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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. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD

The Ethics of Belief

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The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

BBC radio debate on the existence of God, "Russell vs. Copleston,", 1948

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

FRANZ KAFKA

attributed, Memorable Quotations

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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The Reflections of Lichtenberg

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It is hard for anyone who has not given himself wholeheartedly to a belief (and I say again, Miss V., that is how it is: you give yourself to it, it does not fall upon you like sanctifying grace from Heaven) to appreciate how the believer's conscious mind can separate itself into many compartments containing many, conflicting, dogmas. These are not sealed compartments; they are like the cells of a battery (I think this is how a battery works), over which the electrical charge plays, leaping from one cell to another, gathering force and direction as it goes. You put in the acid of world-historical necessity and the distilled water of pure theory and connect up your points and with a flash and a shudder the patched-together monster of commitment, sutures straining and ape brow clenched, rises in jerky slow motion from Dr. Diabolo's operating table.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Untouchable

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia

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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"

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Beliefs are more powerful than facts.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides

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I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Wise Blood

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If we can once believe that success is possible, success becomes possible.