Quotes About Belief

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.

It's the people who don't worry—those who never have any doubts that what they're doing is good and right—they're the ones that cause the problems.

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the opium of the masses—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.