Belief Quotes

God isn't complex. God is simple. And even if he wasn't how dare someone speak to you in riddles and then threaten to judge you if you get the interpretation wrong.

Great ideas are based on what we make others believe is their ideas.

You can hope, because it is contagious. You can be optimistic because it breeds action. You can have faith and belief because ignorance is preferable to what you can realistically prove... Or you can just go ahead and be cynical or pessimistic, because If you choose either of those you will never be disappointed. No matter what you pick there will always be a silver lining.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Think of it as you want it, not as it is!

I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones.

People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.

People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

You could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's ever proved that it doesn't exist!

Would you believe in what you believed in if no one else believed in it?

Would you believe in what you believed in if no one else believed in it?

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. They go as far as the legs of reason will carry them - and then they leap.