Quotes About Belief

People will believe anything. Except, it seems, the truth.

What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the things that one has done oneself?

He had never talked of what he wanted to do, where he was going, he never joined in the aimless conversations that clustered round the idea of something better in another time. He didn't believe in the future, only the present, and as our future, our years, had turned so relentlessly into identical presents, I understood him more.

I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the service. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings.

There's a lot of talk about freedom. It's like the Holy Grail, we grow up hearing about it, it exists, we're sure of that, and every person has his own idea of where.

Whites find it harder to believe in something to believe in.

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.

what you risk reveals what you value...

because if you are raised on the Bible, you don't just walk away, whatever anybody says.

This has been my difficulty. The difficulty with my life. Those well-built trig points, those physical determinants of parents, background, school, family, birth, marriage, death, love, work, are themselves as much in motion as I am. What should be stable, shifts. What I am told is solid, slips. The sensible strong ordinary world of fixity is folklore. The earth is not flat. Geometry cedes to algebra. The Greeks were wrong.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.

Even if philosophers were in a position to discover truth, who among them would be interested in it? Each knows well that his system is not better founded than the others; but he supports it because it is his.

Doubt with regard to what we ought to know is a condition too violent for the human mind; it cannot long be endured; in spite of itself the mind decides one way or another, and it prefers to be deceived rather than to believe nothing.

I call every man intolerant from principle, who conceives no man can be a man of virtue and probity, who does not believe exactly what he does, and unmercifully consigns to perdition all those who do not think like himself. On Providence

Ä°nançlar?na egemen olan gereksinimleri, ÅŸuna ya da buna inand?rmaktaki ç?karlar?, kendilerinin neye inand?klar?n? öÄŸrenmeye engel oluyor.

aunque estas personas no sepan nada, todas creen saber algo. Mientras que yo, si no sé nada, al menos no tengo esa duda. De

Fakat aram?zda ÅŸu ayr?m var ki bu adamlar bir ÅŸey bilmedikleri halde her ÅŸeyi bildiklerini san?yorlar; bense bir ÅŸey bilmemekle beraber hiç olmazsa bilmediÄŸimden ÅŸüphe etmiyorum.

Protestants are generally better educated than Catholics. This ought to be so: the do?trine of the former requires discussion, that of the latter submission. The Catholic ought to adopt the decision he is given, the Protestant ought to learn to decide for himself.

It should not be thought, moreover, that this manner of thinking is peculiar to Catholics; it is that of every dogmatic religion in which belief is made into the essential thing rather than deeds.

Objektif bak?mdan, ezilenlerin teselli olarak bir Tanr?'ya inanmalar?, halk y???nlar?n? mücadeleden uzaklaÅŸt?rmaktan baÅŸka bir sonuç vermez.