Quotes on belief
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.
Schweitzer, Arthur
Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
Pascal, Blaise
Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
Russell, Bertrand
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
Agar, Herbert
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
America's responsibility to history is to rid the world of evil.
Bush, George W.
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
Porchia, Antonio
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
Pound, Ezra
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Cohen, Felix
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Fuller, Thomas
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Russell, Bertrand
This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
Card, Orson Scott
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
Spalding, John Lancaster
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Rooney, Andy
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Hodgson, Ralph
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
Porchia, Antonio
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
Porchia, Antonio
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
Martin, E.D.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Post, Laurens van der