Quotes About Belief

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, ... The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believe they love liberty.

He has never seen God, but, once or twice, he believes he has heard Him.

Les 'hommes de bonne volonté', feel Their politics perhaps unreal And all they have believed untrue, Are tempted to surrender to The grand apocalyptic dream In which the persecutors scream

Animal femurs ascribed to saints who never existed, are still *** more holy than portraits of conquerors who, unfortunately, did

If I were asked to name people whom I considered true Christians, the name 'George Orwell' is one of the first that would come to my mind.

Beyond him his young cousins in the city Pursued their rapid and unnatural course, Believed in nothing but were easy-going, And treated strangers like a favourite horse.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

The common belief that everyone can do anything if they just try hard enough is a formula for inefficiency at best and for complete failure at worst.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put my faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree

apparently we believe in the words and through them but we long beyond them for what is unseen what remains out of reach what is kept covered

we trust without giving it a thought that we will always see it as we see it once and that what we know is only a moment of what is ours and will stay we believe it as the moment slips away as lengthening shadows merge in the valley and a window kindles there like a first star what we see again comes to us in secret

As those who are gone now keep wandering through our words sounds of paper following them at untold distances so I wake again in the old house where at times I have believed that I was waiting for myself and many years have gone taking with them the semblance of youth reason after reason ranges of blue hills who did I think was missing those days neither here nor there my own dog waiting to be known

this is the white wind that you cannot believe here it is and the owl sails out to see whose turn it is tonight to be changed