Quotes About Belief

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)

Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life.

Oh! Let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong.

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese.