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Quotes About Belief

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The voices of the people are the voices of God.
~ Lili?uokalani
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
~ Sigmund Freud
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
~ C. S. Lewis
The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.
~ Barbara G. Walker
One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without relativising everything.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
~ Terry Pratchett, Mort
The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'
~ George Lucas
Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.
~ Barack Obama
Real 'imaan' is faith in humanity, so those who deny goodness are kafirs.
~ Asghar Ali Engineer
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime
~ David Mitchell
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
~ Abdallah II
The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.
~ Confucius, The Analects
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man
~ Rabindranath Tagore
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
~ Anne Frank
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
~ Said Nursi