Quotes About Belief

A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that.

he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

Todo este tiempo he creído que pensaba en profundidad, pero se trataba tan sólo de una ilusión.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

a land where living is so hard that men want a God so they can hate him.

Faith was the excuse you used if you didn't have a good argument.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

I never dared to be radical when youngFor fear it would make me conservative when old.

I always entertain great hopes.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.

It's the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish...

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.

When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain belief is necessary to ensure eternal joy, there is in that man no spirit of concession. He divides the whole world into saints and sinners, into believers and unbelievers, into God's sheep and Devil's goats, into people who will be glorified and people who are damned.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.