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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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