Belief Quotes
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein -
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. Elton Trueblood
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Aaron Huey -
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.
George Bernard Shaw -
I joined the struggle in the belief that I was following the voice of the people; I quit it now for the same reason.
Apolinario Mabini -
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken -
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Wilde -
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
Ernest Thompson Seton
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There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.
U.G. Krishnamurti -
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Ram Dass -
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. Wilson -
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Ulrich Beck -
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
Nancy Gibbs -
Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
Oscar Wilde
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton -
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
Maggie Stiefvater -
It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Wendy Davis -
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
Carrie Chapman Catt -
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
Caitlin Moran -
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
Yann Martel
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates -
I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
Abigail Breslin -
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton U2 -
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
Barbara Jordan