belief

belief

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. Marriage and Morals
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Elective Affinities
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. The Telling
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.