Belief Quotes

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

Paulo Coelho

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Angel Cordero Jr.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Henry Miller

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

Publilius Syrus

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

James A. Froude

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

E. M. Forster

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Henry Ford

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Jonathan Swift

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Martin Seligan

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Bertrand Russell

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Lynwood L. Giacomini

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Thomas Fuller

There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa. Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.

George Orwell

Free yourself from the imprisonment of your own limiting beliefs and prejudices.

Steve Maraboli

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Samuel Johnson

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

Eric Hoffer

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Louis Nizer

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

H. A. Hodges