Quotes About Belief

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Einstein cherished the belief that quantum theory was merely a stopgap, which would eventually be replaced by a theory that was deterministic and causal. Over the years, he made many clever attempts to show that uncertainty relations could be circumvented, but they were foiled, one by one, with relish, by Bohr.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms. Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!

I found a rip in my phylacteries. Hath heaven no more thunderbolts?

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think the believe every bit of it.

I also believe, along with Keats, that the Poetry of Earth is never dead, as long as Spring succeeds Winter, and man is there to perceive it....And finally, I believe that because all these things are true, Ives' Unanswered Question has an answer. I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I know the answer is Yes.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...

I'm just waiting for the miracle to come

I will starve till prophets find me, I will bleed till angels bind me, Still I sing till churches blind me, Still I love till cog-wheels wind me.

If I spelled out the Principles of Faith I would be barking on the moon.

We did no train ourselves to receive, because we believed there wasn't anything to receive and we could not endure with this belief.

Though I don't believe, I come to you now, and I lift my doubt to your mercy.

Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.

Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is – the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone.

The eye that sees is not a mere physical organ but a means of perception conditioned by the tradition in which its possessor has been reared.    ââ'¬â€RUTH BENEDICT

You're wasting your time," he said. "You don't learn how to discover things by reading books on it. And psychology is a bunch of bullshit.

I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed).

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.