Quotations
Quotes:
'It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds wall; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exist'.
View quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
View quotes by John Gardner
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active
View quotes by Edith Hamilton
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
View quotes by Thomas Nagel
Our thirty year old belief that there is only one kind of computer is the basis for our belief that there is only one kind of programming language.
View quotes by John Backus
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. [And what about belief in the illusion of the absence of illusions?]
View quotes by Barbara Harrison
It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.
View quotes by Janet Jackson
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way (A Tale of Two Cities)
View quotes by Charles Dickens
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
View quotes by Bertrand Russell
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
View quotes by Bertrand Russell
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
View quotes by Sigmund Freud
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
View quotes by Henry James
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
View quotes by Henry L Mencken
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
View quotes by Peter Ustinov
Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
[Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge]
View quotes by Karl Popper
A lot of people now find belief in God immature, and eventually a lot of people may find realism immature.
[The Philosophers' Magazine, Autumn 1999]
View quotes by Richard Rorty
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
View quotes by Honore De Balzac
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
View quotes by Robertson Davies
