Quotes About Belief

No, among Catholics one did not question the purity of the Holy Virgin, and among Nazis one didn't question the honor of the Führer.

It is perfectly possible that what has ever been exists always, and that what is going to be has likewise existed always. So I decided to take a new attitude of mind; I am ready to believe anything if I get enough evidence, and I hesitate before I say that anything is impossible

He explained Adi's propaganda technique of choosing a big lie and repeating it incessantly until everybody believed it;

in his book that you can get any lie believed if you repeat it often enough; and especially if it's a big lie—because people will say that nobody would dare to tell one as big as that. It is no exaggeration to say that he has made Germany into a headquarters of the Lie; he has told so many and so often that nobody in his country has any means of distinguishing truth from falsehood.

Hilda was philosophical. That means you think everything will turn out for best, according to my father. Or if you don't actually think it, you pretend to.

He didn't know how to speak properly, how to walk properly, how to comb his hair, and she felt embarrassed for him as he shouted about restoring jobs and national honor, about a better and splendid Germany. The mob applauded, shouted. Did people really believe that he wanted what was best for Germany?

It was the kind of silence that fills you with light and makes you believe you can do anything you want.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

we will not succeed if our actions are based on myths and misinformation.

I contrast the now common belief in an ever-faster pace of innovation with the many unmistakable signs of technical stagnation and slowing advances: there are limits to everything, and invention and innovation cannot be exceptions.

You take the lead. He'll open up more easily to a copper than a mumbo jumbo man

You can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no such thing as vampires any more than you can prove you're not a lesbian.

To come up against someone who appeared not to give a damn about exerting petty power almost restored his faith in the public.

Her anger was a memory now. She didn't believe in bearing grudges. She believed in killing them where they lay.

My body's a temple to a different god from hers.

all that New Age stuff reckons a shower cleanses your aura.

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

As I just stated, one of the most useful beliefs of successful trading is that when you don't follow your written rules, then you've made a mistake. In addition, if you don't have such written rules, then everything you do is a mistake.

I've realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It's something quite irrational and instinctive.

Uno de los medios de los que se sirve el fascismo para actuar sobre el hombre es la total, o casi total, ceguera. El hombre no cree que vaya al encuentro de su propia aniquilación.

During the course of his life, dozens of interrogators had understood that he was neither a monarchist, nor a Socialist Revolutionary, nor a Social Democrat; that he had never been part of either the Trotskyist or the Bukharinist opposition. He had never been an Orthodox Christian or an Old Believer; nor was he a Seventh-Day Adventist.

I believe in God, and I love my brother. But I don't want any religion that will demand I lose my individuality.