Quotes About Belief

And what if it were only a story?" said Mrs. May quickly, "so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don't be so literal. Anything we haven't experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.

It's so awful and sad," she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, "to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.

His internal God-inspired vision for himself was realized through the acceptance of his previously unacceptable physical vision.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

I told him that I believe all things in nature bear the mark of their Maker. The eagle, the owl, and the wind. We sat silently for a long moment, understanding that we are not so different really.

Resistance indicates a perceived threat to a largely unconscious belief system, one that has no doubt successfully guided the organization in the past.

because the belief system has no doubt led to success in the past, so it will fight back with many varieties of self-fulfilling prophecies.

and so we persist in using suboptimized measurements out of superstition and habit.

they play fast and loose with both historical fact and traditional religious interpretation in order to understand their past as they believe it must be understood

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. How many have tried, because of him? Not only those I have seen; there will be men to come. Those who look in mankind only for their own littleness, and make them believe in that, kill more than he ever will in all his wars.

Now for the first time he realized how important it had been not to admit any alternative to the hard, decent, orthodox choice which need not be regarded as a choice at all; how important not to be different.

There is truth and truth,' said the priest of Delos. 'It is true after its kind.

It was his nature to believe anything, before he would believe he could be wrong.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men

Siempre me ha parecido que una de las preguntas más absurdas del mundo es: «¿Estás salvado?». Para contestar uno ha de sonar o bien esquivo y derrotista o demasiado complaciente. ?Creo que yo dije que solo puede esperarse lo mejor, pero a ella le pareció evasivo.

If one sat up as long as an hour past bedtime, except on Christmas and birthdays, one would be ill. Laurie, who had had this explained to him many times and accepted it as incontrovertible fact, inferred from it that after three hours one would probably die.

Alexias) 'You burned this and you kept no copy?' (Plato) 'When one offers to the gods, one brings a whole beast to the altar. If it was an image of what is not, then it was false and ought to be destroyed; and if of what is, then a little fire will not destroy it.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

It is characteristic of the average mind often to question what it hears, but to believe wholeheartedly what it reads.

One of the greatest tragedies in human interaction is that we believe 'will' can change everything—it can't.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?