Quotes About Belief

the English doctor had realized that when you give a patient a medical treatment, you are really giving her two things. You are giving her a drug, which will usually have a chemical effect on her body in some way. And you are giving her a story—about how the treatment will affect her.

But that's the thing about the pessimistic belief that we are powerless and we can't change anything. It's false.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

La prima impressione ci trova ben disposti, e l'uomo è fatto in modo che gli si possono far credere le storie più avventurose; ma queste si imprimono subito così tenacemente che guai a chi voglia rimuoverle o cancellarle!

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.