Belief Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
Albert Einstein
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Lynd
It is impossible to go through life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all ~ oneself.
Graham Greene
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Anonymous
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
Mark Twain
It is not important what you believe, only that you believe.
Anonymous
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Laurence J. Peter
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Max Depree
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
Hannah Senesh
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Albert Einstein
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
Nothing else matters much — not wealth, nor learning, nor even health — without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.
Johann Goethe
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
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