Quotes About Belief

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt

What are they fighting about?" Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. "They're arguing scripture." "Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

Art is doing something you really believe in.

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.