Belief Quotes and Sayings

Belief Quotes

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound

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

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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 Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~Thomas Fuller

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878

He who does not know how to believe, should not know. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~Felix Cohen

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ~John Lancaster Spalding

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

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, Unpopular Essays, 1950

When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If the sun and moon should doubt,

They'd immediately go out.

~William Blake (1757-1827), "Auguries of Innocence"

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views. ~Nikolai Gogol

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.... ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. ~Laurens van der Post

Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. ~Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932

It is easier to believe than to doubt. ~E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. ~Herbert Agar

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~Bertrand Russell