Quotes About Belief

Without free expression humankind may be robbed of ideas that would otherwise have contributed to its development. Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth. It also reinvigorates the beliefs of those who would otherwise be at risk of holding views as dead dogma.

If the people believe there's an imaginary river out there, you don't tell them there's no river there. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

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

Though I worship nothing (save myself) You were my savior—so be it And it was Perhaps not never more or ever after But after all—once you were mine

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.

Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made

Cuando comprendes que toda opinión es una visión cargada de historia personal, empiezas a comprender que todo juicio es una confesión.

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You'll ask me why. It's because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.

No. I don't believe in anything. How many times must I tell you that? I don't believe in anything anyone; only in Zorba. Not because Zorba is better than the others; not at all, not a little bit! He's a brute like the rest! But I believe in Zorba because he's the only being I have in my power, the only one I know. All the rest are guts. All the rest are ghosts, I tell you. When I die, everything'll die. The whole Zorbatic world will go to the bottom!

The great difference between us is this: you believe you have found salvation, and believing this, you are saved; I believe that salvation doesn't exist, and believing this, I am saved.

in order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God

By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent -

Whoever is rich, and is a communist, is an idiot, he would say. Whoever is poor, and is not a communist, is a bigger idiot.

If they were to ask me what road leads to heaven, I would answer them: the most difficult!

Religion is opium for the masses

There is only one essence, always the same. As yet, man has found no other means to elevate himself—none but the routing of matter and the submission of the individual to an end which transcends the individual, even though that end be chimerical. When the heart believes and loves, nothing chimerical exists; nothing exists but

If you have faith, a splinter from an old door will become a holy relic. And if you have no faith the entire holy cross will become an old door.