Quotes About Belief

But you think it because you don't trust your colleagues. Not all of them. You don't believe in them. Which leaves you isolated. It's all down to you. But the army is different. Whatever else is wrong with it, you can trust your brother soldiers. And believe in them.

He liked fiction better than fact, because fact often wasn't. Like most people he knew a couple of things for sure, up close and eyeballed, and when he saw them in books they were wrong. So he liked made-up stories better, because everyone knew where they were from the get-go. He wasn't strict about genre. Either shit happened, or it didn't.

They figured they would eat in California. Which would make them hungry, but Reacher didn't mind being hungry. he believed hunger kept him sharp. He believed is stimulated creativity in the brain. Another old evolutionary legacy. If you're hungry, you work out a smarter way to get the next woolly mammoth, today, not tomorrow.

No, I believe he's in the Dyer VOQ." Which were the Visiting Officers' Quarters, at Fort Dyer.

It needs permission, from deep down in the ancient part of the brain, where fundamental inhibitions are either enforced or relaxed. It needs the shooter to really, really, truly believe: This is OK. This is your enemy. You're better than him. You're the best in the world. Anyone who challenges you deserves to die. Most guys have an off switch. But Kott's didn't close all

His name was Kramer and he was a Catholic and his blood group was O.

They may never be able to prove it.

Garber always tells the truth. So nobody ever believes him.

wouldn't. So he hoped they would bear

Pascal's Wager.

he would choose them if they weren't? "They know Holly pretty well," he said. "They're good enough." "Moaners and groaners?

I guess I can dream. Hope dies last, right?

But the smart money says we should act like I'm right. Just in case." "Like Pascal's Wager.

All the guys Reacher had ever known, fraud, theft, homicide, and treason, right up to the very end believed there was some chance of getting away with it, and therefore something should be salvaged, if possible. No one wanted to start over with nothing.

ideologically

Reacher had no patience for people who claimed that y was a vowel.

She's a fatalist," I said.

Standing up for what you believe in comes has a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

Perception is reality, so it's up to us to create the perception

Besides, how could I trust them, when I couldn't even trust myself?

I'm writing a book on magic", I explain, and I'm asked, "Real magic?" By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. "No", I answer: "Conjuring tricks, not real magic". Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.

And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

But what is equally important, and sobering, is how often we fool ourselves. And we fool ourselves not only individually but en masse. The tendency of a group of human beings to quickly come to believe something that its individual members will later see as obviously false is truly amazing. Some of the worst tragedies of the last century happened because well-meaning people fell for easy solutions proposed by bad leaders.