Quotes About Belief

Le monde ne sait que vous tuer comme un dormeur quand il se retourne le monde, sur vous, comme un dormeur tue ses puces. Voilà qui serait certes mourir bien sottement, que je me dis, comme tout le monde, c'est-à-dire. Faire confiance aux hommes c'est déjà se faire tuer un peu.

Acreditava no corpo dela, não acreditava no seu espírito. Considerava-a como uma encantadora emboscada, em relação à guerra e em relação à vida.

Quand la haine des hommes ne comporte aucun risque, leur bêtise est vite convaincue, les motifs viennent tout seuls.

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means.

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

You are an educated man, Old One.' 'What is education besides a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life? There are many kinds of education, and often education closes as many doors as it opens for to believe implies disbelief. One accepts one kind of belief but closes the mind to all that is, or seems to be contradictory.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Nobody is ever convinced by argument, anyway. They just think up new reasons for maintaining old positions and become more defensive.

She did not believe me. You do not worship the Sun. The sun gives life to all things. Without the sun this would be a dark, dead world. Perhaps, I added, the spirit we worship is the same, and only the names are different. The message from He who rules over us all may come to each people in a different way.

He had fought for a principle, and because it was his nature to fight.

You believe in heroes?" Corvino looked at him thoughtfully. "I cannot believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I am a soldier. I try to fight for the right cause. Sometimes it is hard to know.

It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of religious or political belief, and it is a poor sort of man who will permit others to dictate what he may or may not learn.

A man often creates an image of a girl in his mind but when it comes right down to it that's the only place the girl exists.

All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers...only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.

I have reverence for truth, but I do not know what truth is. I suspect there are many truths, and therefore, I suspect all who claim to have the truth.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

when a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety.

From Elisha Comes to Red Horse : Now I can't claim to be what you'd call a religious man, yet I've a respect for religion, and when a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety.

Es wird eine Zeit kommen, in der man glaubt, dass alles zu Ende ist. Das wird der Anfang sein.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. Yet I had faith in the intentions of my countrymen, no matter how far they might at times stray from those intentions.

Keep an open mind," he told me, "for no man can say what can or cannot be, nor can he say what does or does not exist.