Famous belief quotations

   Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
 ~ by Felix Cohen

   Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.
 ~ by Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
 ~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

   The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
 ~ by Ezra Pound

   Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
 ~ by Seneca

   When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
 ~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

   Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
 ~ by Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950

   It is easier to believe than to doubt.
 ~ by E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education

   Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
 ~ by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878

   Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
 ~ by Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

   He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
 ~ by Thomas Fuller

   This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
 ~ by Orson Scott Card

   He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
 ~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

   We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
 ~ by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

   Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
 ~ by Laurens van der Post

   Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
 ~ by Herbert Agar

   Some things have to be believed to be seen.
 ~ by Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems

   Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
 ~ by John Lancaster Spalding



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