Quotes About Belief

Sometimes there is truth in dreams.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.

Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.

All me lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it ... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.

Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.

A un sapo le salen alas y ya cree que es un dragón.

Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard.

Boys believe nothing can harm them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.

A Hedge Knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other Knights serve the Lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every Knight swears to protect the weak, but we keep the vow the best, I think.

I am too old a soldier to believe that. Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.

If I pray nicely, will the Father give me a new hand? No. But the Warrior will give you courage, the Smith will lend you strength, and the Crone will give you wisdom. It's a hand I need.

I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope... perhaps I wanted to... we all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe.

A man should cling to hope.

Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad.

Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.

The gods have no mercy. That's why they're gods.

Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

In the darkness all the gods were strangers.

The gods are never that good.

The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.

Some would fight for any cause, some for none at all.

As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted," Tyrion began, "there is a serious flaw in Littlefinger's fable. Whatever you may believe of me, Lady Stark, I promise you this—I never bet against my family.

The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.