Belief Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Antonio Porchia
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| Unless you believe, you will not understand. |
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine |
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| This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. |
| - Orson Scott Card |
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| Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. |
| - Lewis Carroll |
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| Man is what he believes. |
| - Anton Chekhov |
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| The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. |
| - Thomas Fuller |
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| We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. |
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. |
| - John Lilly |
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| Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. |
| - Laurence J. Peter |
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| He who does not know how to believe, should not know. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. |
| - Laurens Van der Post |
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| What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. |
| - Ezra Pound |
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| I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. |
| - Dame Edith Sitwell |
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| Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. |
| - John Lancaster Spalding |
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| I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. |
| - Gerry Spence |
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| They can conquer who believe they can. |
| - Virgil |
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| Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. |
| - Virgil |
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| Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. |
| - Voltaire |
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| Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. |
| - Frank Lloyd Wright |
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