Quotes About Belief

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.

I don't believe in astrology - of course, that's very typical of Leos.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men, because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women, at any rate in childbirth.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.