Quotes About Belief

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

The infidel may well despond, When sorrow's tear he sheds, His bosom knows no hope beyond The dust on which he treads.

Fear not, but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'...

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous

Whereas Buddhism believes it would be best if we could simply ignore the world, the source of our psychic pain, the Taoists wanted nothing so much as to have complete union with this same world.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

The right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

"Go to the d—l!" said the disappointed ghost-hunter. An hour—two—rolled on, and still no spectral visitation... and when the turret-clock sounded at length the hour of three, Ingoldsby, whose patience and grog were alike exhausted, sprang from his chair, saying— "This is all infernal nonsense, my good fellow. Deuce of any ghost shall we see to-night..."

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.