Quotes About Belief

Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, an angel gets set on fire.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime.

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.