Quotes About Belief

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action.

Cecily: - La explicación parece satisfactoria, ¿no? Gwendolen: - Sí, siempre que usted le crea. Cecily: - No le creo, pero eso no afecta la belleza de su respuesta

Ah! then it must be an illusion. The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him.

Lord Canterville: I feat that the ghost exists . . . and always makes its appearance before the death of any member of our family. Mr. Otis: Well, so does the family doctor for that matter, Lord Canterville. But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy.

Nunca des explicaciones, tus amigos no las necesitan y tus enemigos no las creen

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But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

He who can believe himself well, will be well.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

We believe slowly when belief brings pain.

Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

the gods are created by poets --Ovid

you put too much faith in the power of the gods, if you think they can give and take away the shape of things

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.