Quotes with belief

  • Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
  • Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
  • A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
  • Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
  • The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
  • You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.
  • The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
  • While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
  • The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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  • Albert Einstein During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Paine Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • George Carlin Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • George Orwell Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William Shenstone Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services....Everything has its price.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Armstrong Williams A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bradley Denton A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Franz Kafka A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Milton Friedman A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • John Milton A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Epictetus A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • David Hume A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Bertrand Russell Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
    The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Adam Smith All money is a matter of belief.
    Wealth of Nations (1776)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All the great ages have been ages of belief.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arnold Bennett All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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