Belief Quotes

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James

Faith, Doubt, Means

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.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Good, Yourself

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken

Faith, May, Defined

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes

Good, Men, Greatest

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Work, Greatest, Reality

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud

Forced, Unbelief

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. Truman

Men, Parents, Free

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce

Beautiful, Everything, Optimism

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

Opinion, Statement, Absurdity

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Important, Nervous

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

Live, According

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins

Religion, Time, Power

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
Ted Nugent

Good, Rock, Bad

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

Freedom, Free, Against

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.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Everything, Off

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce

Faith, Knowledge, Evidence

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Exercise, Judgment, Prefers

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.
Bertrand Russell

Emotional, Himself, Logical

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson

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.
Henry Miller

Great, Wise, Enough

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Constant, Assertion

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

Good, Bad, Animal

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
James Dean

Trust, Yourself, Two

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman

Freedom, Free, Against

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley

Off, Won, Switch

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith, Someone, Thinking

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham

Powerful, Young, Common

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
George Eliot

Rather, Sincerity, Satisfied

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. Forster

Good, Mind, Human

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac

Friendship, Nothing, Friend

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