Belief Quotes - page 2

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. (Blaise Pascal)
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. View quote
George Carlin
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. View quote
Wallace Stevens
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. View quote
Henry Miller
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. View quote
Steve Jobs
First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect. View quote
Kathy Najimy
Belief is the death of intelligence. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
What do you mean, you "don't believe in homosexuality?" It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. (Lea DeLaria)
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. View quote
William Shenstone
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. View quote
Richard Feynman
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. View quote
Frances Wright
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. (Edward Bellamy)
Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. View quote
Milton Friedman
My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others. View quote
Gillian Anderson
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. View quote
Robertson Davies