Quotes About Belief

I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Hoffnung ist das Gefühl, dass das Gefühl, das du hast, nicht ewig dauert

Very often people come up with spiritual beliefs to answer questions. Why did my child get sick? Why did the rain come and flood the river? People don't--and still don't--have those answers, so we try to come up with reasons.

A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

No one told her it was impossible to rapid-fire two stones from a sling, because it had never been done before, and since no one told her she couldn't, she taught herself to do it.

A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there might be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

iGen'ers are more likely than any generation before them to be raised by religiously unaffiliated parents.

Races, socioeconomic groups, and regions differ in their religious service attendance much more than they did a few decades ago. The religious landscape is now more polarized based on identity.

Truth is everywhere, and easily seen. Believing one's eyes Is the difficulty.

He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me....

He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

The only thing I'm sure of is that one can't be a complete unbeliever. That would be to admit to nothingness. Absolute zero doesn't exist.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Head full of beer, fists jammed into his empty pockets, halos of blur around the parking lot lights, yup, one more wasted evening, and even though you wanted to believe you had an infinite supply of evenings available for wasting, you didn't.

Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of our beliefs; we read the newspapers and seek the company of people who will confirm us in those beliefs; and thus we stick obstinately to these beliefs, whether or not they are correct.

His view of human nature is more jaundiced (I think that is the word) than mine.

There is nothing less scientific than to deny something because it cannot be explained.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.