Quotes About Belief

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Teoria sbagliata - Un filosofo che non poteva camminare perché si pestava la barba, si tagliò i piedi.

I sometimes suspect they don't take Dr. Aphrodite very seriously. Which is sad, really. Because what's more serious than love?

She once told him about the mysterious trampled-down places found in fields, which the peasants superstitiously called werewolves' nests. Coming across one of these sites, she fell to her knees and buried her face in the flattened yellow grasses, hoping to inhale the odor of a werewolf, a csordásfarkas. As if his scent was a charm. She smelled nothing but hay burned by the afternoon sun.

A child conceived on Christmas Eve is considered unlucky and will later resent his parents for their unholy transgression, their lack of control and piety. The child may be deformed with a harelip or be cursed with the ears and head of a wolf. Or the infant may be born a werewolf.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

They have that most strange and dangerous of qualities," said Cosca. "They think they're in the right.

When you tell a lie, you have to sound like you believe it. Goes double for the ones you tell yourself.

If there was a God, the world seemed exactly the way it would be if there wasn't one.

Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful had no need of.

You are Shenkt? I expected more." "Pray to whatever god you believe in that you never see more." "I do not pray." Shenkt leaned close, and whispered in his ear. "I advise you to start.

Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Men can have all manner of deeply held beliefs about the world in general that they find most inconvenient when called upon to apply to their own lives. Few people let morality get in the way of expediency. Or even convenience. A man who truly believes in a thing beyond the point where it costs him is a rare and dangerous thing.

Well, everyone lies. The difference between a hero and a villain is whether anyone believes him.

Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.

People would far rather believe a lurid lie than a sorry string of accidents. Would far rather believe the world is full of evil than full of bad luck, selfishness and stupidity.

Amazing the rubbish idiots will believe if you shout it loudly enough.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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I'm just one person. But you are one. One plus the Lord can do mighty things now and again.