Quotes About Belief

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

I don't believe in coincidences. Neither do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?

I wished I could share my own optimism.

This is Fiction, and the truth is whatever you make it. You can interpret the situation in any way you want, and all of the scenarios could be real -- and what's more, depending on how you act now, any one of them could become real.

The best lies to tell, said Jane, are the ones people want to believe.

GSD?' murmured Mycroft. 'What in heaven's name is that?' 'Global Standard Deity,' answered Polly. 'It's a mixture of all the religions. I think it's meant to stop religious wars.

Las premoniciones se cumplen porque la gente quiere que se cumplan. Un observador siempre cambia el resultadi de un acontecimiento; millines de observadores, como en este caso, lo garantizan.

Remember, Thursday, that scientific thought – indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else – is just like the fashions that we wear – only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

I'll tell you what love is," I told her. "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter!" "That was quite good," said Havisham, looking at me curiously. "Could I use that? Dickens won't mind." "Of course.

There's weird shit about; take it for luck.' 'I'm beginning to think there's no such thing.' 'My point precisely.

A Uncorn isn't for page twenty-seven, it's for eternity.

I . . . I . . . didn't know I could do this." "What you mean is that you did know that you couldn't—it's quite a different thing.

There was something she wasn't telling me, but I had to trust her—only a fool ignores a local guide. "Okay

Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Cuando estalló el caso Marco, mucha gente dedujo que, dado que Marco había mentido sobre su estancia en el campo de Flossenbürg, había mentido sobre todo lo demás. Es una deducción errónea, que delata una ignorancia espectacular sobre la naturaleza de las buenas mentiras y los buenos mentirosos: los buenos mentirosos no sólo trafican con mentiras, sino también con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequeñas verdades;

era un católico de misa diaria, un hombre lleno de buenas intenciones y un creyente en la bondad natural del ser humano. En definitiva, un sujeto peligroso.

empecé a decirme que una buena mentira no es una mentira pura, exenta, que una mentira pura es una mentira inverosímil, que, para que sea verosímil, una mentira tiene que construirse en parte con verdades, y

cómo quieres que crea en un sistema político que le da el derecho de voto a un individuo como yo?

Y qué es un héroe? [...] - Alguien que se cree un héroe y acierta. O alguien que tiene el coraje y el instinto de la virtud, y por eso no se equivoca nunca, o por lo menos no se equivoca en el único momento en que importa no equivocarse, y por lo tanto no puede no ser un héroe [...]

Es curioso cómo el pensamiento incurre en lo inverosímil, cómo se lo permite momentáneamente, cómo fantasea o se hace supersticioso para descansar un rato o encontrar alivio, cómo es capaz de negar los hechos y hacer que retroceda el tiempo, aunque sea un instante. Cómo se parece al sueño.

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.