Quotes About Belief

An atheist-laugh's a poor exchangeFor Deity offended.

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.

One religion is as true as another.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false. Those statements that we cannot prove false, after much effort, we deem to be true enough for our purposes.

Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

When we say that trust is an emotional skill, this implies that emotional competence is a necessary part of trust.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

But to be a Bolshevik in the early years was not so much to accept a particular set of beliefs as it was to gravitate into the orbit of Lenin as a political mentor, revolutionary strategist, and personality.

It is hard to believe that Lenin would not have won the case had his health permitted him to argue it before the court of the party congress. But when the

This became the generally accepted Russian Marxist position.

Although Lenin did not directly take issue with it, his own outlook differed radically.

After years of being wrong, I now realize the possibility of the Christian belief or Genesis actually being true. Perhaps there was a worldwide flood.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler coined the term "backfire effect" to describe how some individuals when confronted with evidence that conflicts with their beliefs come to hold their original position even more strongly.