Belief Quotes

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad)
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. View quote
Richard Bach
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. View quote
Sophia Loren
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. View quote
John Stuart Mill
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. View quote
Max Born
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. View quote
William James
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. View quote
Henry James
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. View quote
E. M. Forster
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. (Ambrose Bierce)
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. View quote
Emil Cioran
The happy ending is our national belief. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. View quote
David Hume
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. View quote
David Hume
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. View quote
Edward de Bono
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. (Peter Ustinov)
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. View quote
Barack Obama
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. View quote
Immanuel Kant
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. View quote
Jane Smiley