Quotes about Belief

Chemist, Physicist

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

Activity - Belief - Proposal

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Belief - Earth - Human - Show

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

Almighty - Belief - Heavens - Lie - Permission - Teaching - Writing

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Belief - Identity - Spiritual

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Belief - Dispose - Habit - Lie - Permission - President

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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe a liar or charlatan could have had the effect on mankind that he has had for 2000 years. We could ask, would even the greatest of liars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? ... Did he allow us the choice... to believe in his teaching but reject his statements about his own identity?

Belief - Choice - Effectiveness - Lie - Reject

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

Belief - University

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John D. Rockefeller

Business Magnate, Industrialist

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

Belief - Man

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Belief - Persistence - Show

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Belief - Encounter - Giving - Mastering - Realization - Slavery - Yielding

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

Belief - Enough - Freedom - Knowledge - Lie - People - Truth

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Belief - Compassion - Kindness - Rebirth - Religion

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Simone de Beauvoir

Writer, Philosopher, Political Activist, Social Theorist

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

Belief - Mistake

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Stephen King

Writer

A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some popular novelists... that thier success is based on literary merit -- that the public understands true greatness in ways the tight-a**ed, consumed-by-jealousy literary establishment cannot. This idea is ridiculous, a product of vanity and insecurity.

Belief - Consumer - Making - Mysticism - Novel - Product

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Belief - Conscience - Friendship - Guilt - Hate - Ownership - World

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Rachel Carson

Marine biologist

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

Belief - Environment - Mankind - Mastering - Proof - Thinking

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Belief

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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Absence - Authority - Axiom - Belief - Hypothesis - Law

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Aldous Huxley

Writer, Philosopher

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Belief

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Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

Belief - Bitterness - Feelings - Grief - Knowledge - Misery - Perfection

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