Quotes About Belief

the world has always needed is more heretics and less authority.

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 Ã¢â'¬Â¦ only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.

listen to the advice of others but to act only on my own beliefs, and to make my own decisions.

The idea that the world was flat was never put forth by a seafaring man. It was a tale told to landsmen, or to merchants who might be inclined to compete for markets, for in those days the source of raw material was closely guarded.

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.

One of the easiest ways to be brave is to have bravery expected of you.

I had already learned to listen to the advice of others but to act only on my own beliefs, and to make my own decisions.

Seems if the Lord really wants a man it doesn't need all that fuss to get him worked up to it. If a man isn't ready for the Lord, then the Lord isn't ready for him, and it's a straight-forward proposition between man and God without any wringing of the hands or hell-fire shouting.

The Lord had my trust, yet of others I was not so sure.

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

He did not like to admit that he might be in error, and he was also an optimistic planner: he expected the breaks to go his way. This, she remembered having heard, was true of the criminal mind;

Nothing in my nature permitted me to trust to fortune, for it was my belief that good luck comes to those who work hard and plan well. So

if he claimed there was a rock in a road at a certain point in a story, his readers knew that if they went to that spot they would find the rock

I suspect what I was doing would be called courageous. If I rescued them, it might even be considered an heroic action, but was it? Was I not conditioned by reading, by hearing, by understanding what I should do?

When you know that you know persecution comes easy.

Abbott had also impressed on Holmes, possibly by his conversation but certainly by his example, the belief that nobility of character consists in doing one's job with indifference to ends

when we choose a belief and act on it, we change the way things are.

Certitude leads to violence.

On the contrary: she thought that the conditions that had made Hitler possible were still present, and that the West needed to be reborn. The European tradition had destroyed itself. "The whole of nearly three thousand years of Western civilization with all its implied beliefs, traditions, and standards of judgment has come toppling down over our heads," she wrote.47

The lesson Holmes took from the war can be put in a sentence. It is that certitude leads to violence.

If behaving as thought we had free will or God exists gets us results we want, we will not only come to believe those things; they will be, pragmatically, true.

There is a difference between an idea and ideology.

the true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.