Quotes About Belief

I'm opinionated, and I'm comfortable with confrontation. I'm very happy to say if I believe the opposite of what you think.

Just because I am an opinionated and strong girl doesn't mean that I don't believe in vanity.

I give opinions, not advice.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once-but no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

Religion? The fashionable substitute for belief.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable

But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person.

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

Thou knowest all; I seek in vain What lands to till or sow with seed - The land is black with briar and weed, Nor cares for falling tears or rain. Thou knowest all; I sit and wait With blinded eyes and hands that fail, Till the last lifting of the veil And the first opening of the gate. Thou knowest all; I cannot see. I trust I shall not live in vain, I know that we shall meet again In some divine eternity.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not? – Yes dear, if you can believe him. – I don't. But that does not affect the wonderful beauty of his answer.

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

In every sphere of life, form is the beginning of things. […] Forms are the food of faith, cried Newman in one of those great moments of sincerity that made us admire the know the man. […] The Creeds are believed, not because they are rational, but because they are repeated.

Ah! it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself. To arrive at what one really believes, one must speak through lips different from one's own. To know the truth one must imagine myriads of falsehoods.

I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.