Quotes on “belief”

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.