Quotes About Belief

Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.

That's because people find what they're looking for. If we look for beauty, we'll find beauty. If we look for conspiracies, we'll find conspiracies. It's all a matter of setting our mental channel.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their simple faith and remove all basis for their hoping that things will be better—for the best way to destroy faith or hope is to let it be realized.

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it. This is not quite so bad as it sounds, as I am a decent, civilized, likable guy. So, shading my eyes against the blue and fiery afternoon, I began searching for ways to convince the authorities of this. Lying, I decided, was probably best.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could.

When there is no real hope we must mint our own. If the coin be counterfeit it still may be passed.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

The optimism of a revolutionary always gives rise to a sense of wonder.

Only a fool believes that life has but one meaning.

It is said that the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, Cassandra, but I hoped it was not so.

I know no gods, but if any care to be with us, I welcome them.

I came to pray; mocking, I stay.

I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

What's truth, anyway? Truth is what you make it.

Fiona and Brand had reached beyond everything and found something, where none of the rest of us had believed anything to exist. The danger released was, on some level, almost worth the evidence obtained: we were not alone, nor were shadows truly our toys.

Few people can say of themselves that they are free of the belief that this world which they see around them is in reality the work of their own imagination. Are we pleased with it, proud of it, then?

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it

Tänan, ütlesin [Merlin]. Nüüd olen ma kõigeks valmis. Sa võid nii enesekindluse huvides väita, ütles Vialle, aga ära seda kunagi usu.

The mind is a funny place. I do not even trust my own.

Don't you see, said Father, that you are confusing fiction with facts, fiction does not create facts, fiction can come from facts, it can grow out of facts by compounding, transposing, augmenting, diminishing, or altering them in any way; but you must not confuse cause and effect, you must not confuse what really happened with what the story says happened, you must not lose your grasp on reality, that way madness lies.

Daddy used to say a common crow's droppings brought uncommon good luck.

There is always hope-hope enough to balance our despair. Or we would be lost.