BELIEF QUOTES II

quotations about belief

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch


Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

GENE WOLFE

The Shadow of the Torturer


We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing them becomes too high.

RANSOM RIGGS

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children


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

attributed, The New Intimacy


Oftimes our belief, if in another, we would regard a superstition.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


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

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

ANNE ENRIGHT

The Gathering


At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

On Certainty


Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Mystery and Manners


Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation and Earth


If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Obsidian Butterfly


He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

JAMES SIEGEL

Detour


There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

JOHN LUBBOCK

The Use of Life


When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through,
And all too narrow for the broadening soul,
Give me the fine, firm texture of the new,
Fair, beautiful and whole!

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Old and New"


So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

ISAAC ASIMOV

The Stars in Their Courses


Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The God Delusion


Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk


Belief is the way
The way of the innocent
And when I say innocent
I should say naive

DEPECHE MODE

"Lie to Me"