Quotes About Belief

She wouldn't have to be lying to be wrong.

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough.

Even the most ridiculous of stories can contain a grain of truth.

Cijeli svoj život Klaus je vjerovao da ako ?itaš dovoljno knjiga, možeš riješiti bilo koji problem, no sad više nije bio siguran.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

Just because you can picture something does not make it so.

But just because you can picture something does not make it so.

The two Baudelaires, of course, had no idea what the hospital's policy was concerning surgical paperwork, but they were beginning to see that the crowd would believe just about anything if they thought it was being said by a medical professional.

The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperone advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.

Just because something is typed -- whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book -- this does not mean that it is true.

The moral of the story is that if you tell yourself you can do something, then you can actually do it, a moral easily disproved if you tell yourself that you can eat nine pints of ice cream in a single sitting, or that you can shipwreck yourself on a distant island simply by setting off in a rented canoe with holes sawed in it.

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion.

No creed can be stretched to the size of truth; no church can be made as large as man.

People who rely most on God rely least on themselves.

A dogma will thrive in soil where the truth could not get root.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

I never really trust drinking water anywhere but Scotland; and I've never been to Scotland. I

It took the combined efforts of many scientists, however, to discover that Nature's actuality is far beyond the limits of our direct sensory experience, and to arrive at the belief that heat is just one form of "energy," a mysterious, insubstantial entity that, like the soul, we will never be able to touch, see, or feel but only experience in its different manifestations.

Truth can be dispensed with when fantasy dominates. p.63

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.