Quotes About Belief

Memories seem to be stored using a variety of mysterious principles, so that you have to circle around and around, through misty clouds of association, before you can relocate some missing piece. It is easy to persuade yourself of the truth of something for which the only evidence is a strong urge to believe. Douglas

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words and your faith stronger than your feelings.

Znaš li šta me zbunjuje? Primje?ujem kako se proteklih sedmica promijenila slika koju sam sebi složio o tvome ocu. Pristupam mu s više obzira. To me zbunjuje jer mi pokazuje koliko su ograni?ena ?vrsta znanja i uvjerenja, koliko su nepovezana s iskustvima.

What did Lincoln say about fooling people? "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

Women, in short, have been trained to believe that they're not allowed to be angry." "Trained," Katherine said loudly. "You're always talking about training, like we're dogs or something." "It's not polite to raise your voice," I said, and she immediately hunched and blushed. Suze frowned. "Don't frown," I said to her, "you'll get wrinkles." Silence.

Her uncle saw plots under every bench but it didn't make him wrong.

Uinniau assumed the earnest face all men used when lying to their friends.

I have a strange kind of face; people trust me. More than that, they see in my face what they want to be there.

From the strange, cold distance in which she had placed herself, Hild wondered what he would do if she said she could see into the realm of the dead. He would believe her. They all believed her, no matter what she said.

Mead produced grater miracles than all the prayers in the world.

Act as though there is nothing wrong, and you can make it true, for a while.

She was baptised to Christ-their name for the pattern, her path, her wyrd. She was still herself.

Mother and daughter were both so rarely wrong they thought they could never be.

She stood alone at the empty heart of a gone god, staff in the crook of her arm, one hand on her seax and the other on her cross. She would not wear and weather. She was Yffing. She would be totem and token for her people, the light of the world.

Her thoughts came together, smooth as a shield wall: The fact they could check the prophecy they must believe.

Christ wasn't their god, some muttered, not yet. But most didn't care. They were happy to eat.

I didn't believe in ki, or the energy from the earth, or light shooting out of fingertips, but the fact was, when I relaxed and thought about energy flowing smooth and liquid through my arms, my arm didn't bend.

Supporters of the two men believed they were victims of a deeply ingrained prejudice against immigrants and radicals.

Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him.