BELIEF QUOTES IV

quotations about belief

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of the venture.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Varieties of Religious Experience


Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

FRANK HERBERT

Heretics of Dune


There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Notes from a Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Control of Your Life


Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


It will be whatever it is, no? Nothing, something -- our believing one thing or another will matter not at all in the end.

SCOTT SMITH

The Ruins


The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Androcles and the Lion


The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

LIN YUTANG

The Importance of Living


To learn a belief without belief is to sing a song without the tune.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Telling


We are trained to believe and not to know.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino


What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Moral Equivalent of War


A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence.

DAVID HUME

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding


I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair


If you want to know what your true beliefs are, take a look at your actions.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Think Big


It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Neverÿon


But I was commanded to believe; and yet it corresponded not with what had been established by calculations and my own sight.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions


Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barriers of system.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

LEWIS CARROLL

attributed, Lewis Carroll in Wonderland: The Life and Times of Alice and Her Creator


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

BERTRAND RUSSELL

"An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish,", Unpopular Essays


Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Physics and Politics


The only thing wrong with love and faith and belief is not having it.

MARK SCHWAHN

"What Comes After the Blues", One Tree Hill