Quotes About Belief

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

...thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I'd like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall be, and it's an image that I keep with me at all times.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn't exist.

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.