Belief Quotes

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Sir Philip Sidney

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

Bertrand Russell

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

Victor Hugo

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

Abraham Lincoln

Every dogma has its day.

Abraham Rotstein

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Jeremy W. Hayward

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Walter Lippmann

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Walter Lippmann

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Alexander Pope

What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!

Steve Maraboli

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

Thomas Carlyle

Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

Neils Bohr, When asked why he ha

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.

Orson Scott Card

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Pliny the Elder

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Will Rogers

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Samuel Johnson