Quotes About Belief

You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact . . .

We were all pagans once, before we went to school.

You hear it, too?" Walter asked. "Of course I do," she snapped. "It's real!

Einmal im Leben zur rechten Zeit sollte man an Unmögliches geglaubt haben.

Schwer, langsam, aber endgültig habe ich mich von dem Glauben gelöst, dass unsere menschlichen Geschicke an den Gang der Gestirne geknüpft sind. Daß dort Seelen wohnen, ähnlich den unseren, die unser Dasein betrifft, und sei es, indem sie die Fäden, die es halten, mißgünstig verwirren.

Besides, my confidence that every person can be cured of his or her false beliefs through evidence has meanwhile significantly diminished. Oh, Mr. Brecht, I often think, people can really see an apple fall to the ground an simultaneously believe it when someone claims: It isn't falling. And there it is still the matter of more obvious natural laws!

He talked about the party line the way Catholics talk about the Immaculate Conception

Ich lernte viel an diesem Fall. Ich lernte, daß keine Lüge zu plump ist, als daß die Leute sie nicht glauben würden, wenn sie ihrem geheimen Wunsch, sie zu glauben, entgegenkommt.

Resurrected from the dead. If miracles could happen, this was one of them; but we no longer knew the right way to accommodate a miracle. We hardly realized that a miracle can be met other than with broken phrases and mocking looks.

Yes, perhaps what she was looking for among the children was shelter. Their light precarious breath, their small hands holding one's own. And the fact that only important things are important to them. Love, for example, she can't help still believing in it, somewhat. When doubts came--love, what is it? can it help to shift a single speck of dust?--then sometimes she thought back to the little schoolhouse...

I didn't know then, and would not have believed, that sympathy gets weaker when excessive claims are made upon it. That it doesn't grow back to the same extent after you give it out. That people, without realizing it or wanting it, develop protective techniques against self-destructive sympathy.

A ciò che si è detto e ripetuto spesso, alla fine si crede.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Believe for big things, dream extravagantly, expect God to do miracles and let's make His name famous across the earth.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

There is a faith that is faith; there is a faith that can do all things; there is a faith that moves mountains, whatever those mountains may be; there is a faith that rises above every obstacle in the world and reaches the greatest heights that the mind of man may have in view; and it is this faith that is the hidden secret.

have faith in God, have faith in man, have faith in yourself, have faith in everything; and have faith in faith. When you have confidence in yourself you arouse everything that is stronger, greater and superior in yourself. In consequence, the more confidence you have in yourself, the more you will attain and accomplish. But the power of self-confidence is but an atom in comparison with the marvelous power of faith.

Faith and belief have nothing in common; they are as different as darkness and light.

Faith is that something in man that transcends every form of limitation and opens the mind to the limitless powers of the soul

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

When there is contradiction between what science knows and what religion believes, there can be no compromise; religion must yield.