Quotes About Belief

In a religious community, the village atheist keeps his doubts to himself.

The unrealistic beliefs of diplomats are what soldiers die of,

You show me ten men who cherish some religious doctrine or political ideology, and I'll show you nine men whose minds are utterly impervious to any factual evidence which contradicts their beliefs, and who regard the producer of such evidence as a criminal who ought to be suppressed.

If you don't like the facts, you ignore them, and if you need facts, dream up some you do like

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

The words God is my defense and deliverance held in the silence until they become part of your very being, will deliver you out of the hands and the arguments of the keenest lawyer in the world.

Hitherto we have believed that we were helped and comforted by others, that we received joy from outside circumstances and surroundings; but it is not so. All joy and strength and good spring up from a fountain within one's own being; and if we only knew this truth we should know that, because God in us is the fountain out of which springs all our good, nothing that anyone does or says, or fails to do or say, can take away our joy and good.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

If you want to do something and you feel in your bones that it's the right thing to do, do it. Intuition is often as important as the facts. 663

There are people who will always come up with reasons why you can't do what you want to do. Ignore them. 601

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

The public… demands certainties…. But there are no certainties.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever.... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

quoting Tolstoy: "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." Many