Quotes About Belief

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, who he assumes to have perfect vision.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.

This is a sane, wholesome, practical, working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God; second, that God himself takes on the care of that man; and third, that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Man is what he believes.

God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.