Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Belief - Quotes

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ground for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell

Many people have died for their beliefs. The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe. - Christopher Paolini

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief. - Baltasar Gracian

Men that believe only what they understand can write their creed on a postage stamp. - Austin O’Malley

Most people are too slow to believe, but once you get them going, they believe too much. - Lewis F. Korns

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. - Michel de Montaigne

Oftimes our belief, if in another, we would regard a superstition. - Lewis F. Korns

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we will be. - Anthony Robbins

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. - Paul ValĂ©ry

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. - Max Born

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favour of its truth. - Bertrand Russell

The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe. - Claude Bernard

The less you know the more you believe. - U2

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