Category: Belief Quotes SMS

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.  ~Seneca

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.  ~Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932LCD

This is how humans are:  we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.  ~Orson Scott Card

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.  ~Herbert Agar

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Some things have to be believed to be seen.  ~Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.  ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670WLBUQ

When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.  ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878PMB; LCD

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.  ~Felix Cohen

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.  You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn’t believe it.  Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they’re true or not.  ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.comtwitter.com/JebDickerson/status/2248758858 and http://twitter.com/JebDickerson/status/2248769852