Quotes About Belief

Joe doesn't subscribe to the theory that we get the luck we deserve. Fairness is a hair color, not something to be balanced on a set of scales.

Why do people think everything will be better if they pour boiling water on dried leaves?

It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

I think that sometimes you can forget what the truth is if you hear a lie often enough.

How does anyone know what's true or real? Things we once accepted as facts are now accepted as being wrong. The earth is not flat, smoking isn't good for us, Pluto isn't a planet, witches weren't burnt at the stake in Salem, and humans have more than five senses. Everything has a half-life—even facts.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.

Plainly stated, I believe consciousness is an instinct.

Festinger was the intellectually intense discoverer of "cognitive dissonance," the idea that when a personal belief is challenged by new information, we tend to ignore the new information in order to reduce mental conflict.

With our habit of sensible literalism we have a difficult time believing that the ancient mythopoeic imagination could have been a valid tool for serious knowledge.

If you discover a want that stirs your soul, then the Universe will figure out how to make it happen. Even though it may not seem feasible, you must have trust that the Universe will pull it off.

True Christians are those who carry out Christ's doctrine in their lives.

God is about belief and faith. It is not about proving there is a God, for there is no proof. What proof can there be?

But it's not hell," Pete spoke with amazing confidence. "Not if you love him.

It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.

I met an immortal humani once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Aoife the Shadows

in every war, both sides believe they are in the right.

Zephaniah creía que las tradiciones misteriosas suponían una amenaza, y, por lo tanto, se dedicó a destruirlas. Pero no olvides que la sabiduría nunca es peligrosa -insistió Tsagaglal-. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es el modo en el que se usa.

the best lie is one that is wrapped around a core of truth.

I hear a but in there somewhere

is that most dangerous of foes: he is absolutely confident that what he is doing is right.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this...' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true.