Quotes About Belief

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.

I just think there is so much irrational pessimism in the world.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Pessimism is my default setting.

I have about an equal amount of optimism and pessimism.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it will all work out for America. Our money says In God We Trust. And we are the best country, aren't we?

One life is way too short to be pessimistic, so you've got to be positive and optimistic.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.