Sayings about Beliefs
A vain belief, unprofitable. ~ English Proverbs
The key to all action lies in belief. ~ English Proverb
Blind belief is dangerous. ~ Kenyan Proverbs
Don’t compromise your beliefs for money. ~ Sicilian Proverb
It is the belief in roses that makes them flourish. ~ French Proverb
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
To believe in certainty, we must begin by doubting. ~ Polish Proverbs
Easy to believe in heaven’s law, but so hard to keep. ~ Chinese Proverb
You can worship a sardine’s head if you believe in it. ~ Japanese Proverbs
If a man believes in a stone, that stone will serve him well. ~ Arabian Proverb
Who knows most believes least. ~ Traditional Proverb
Seeing is believing. ~ Traditional Proverb
The man who loves is easy of belief. ~ Italian Proverbs
Quotations about Beliefs
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ~James Baldwin
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us. ~ Mario Cuomo
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. ~ William James
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. ~ Max Born
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. ~ Sigmund Freud Quotes
Whatever you do, you must remain nimble in your thinking. Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility. ~ Christopher Paolini
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ David Hume
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. ~ Samuel Butler
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs. ~ Henry Miller
I do not believe in Belief. ~ E.M. Forster
At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Men ascribe a great value in the sight of God to their barren belief. Why are we so anxious that our neighbor should have our faith and not our practice? ~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
No one has the right to destroy another person’s belief by demanding empirical evidence. ~ Ann Landers
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. ~ Franz Kafka
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~ Seneca
Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do. ~ Les Brown
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. ~Arthur Schweitzer
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. ~ Louise Erdrich
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone. ~ Berthold Auerbach
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ~ Henry David Thoreau
You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe. ~ Carl Sagan
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~ Thomas Fuller
Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others. ~ Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. ~ George Santayana
The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth. ~ Clarence Darrow
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. ~ Walter Bagehot
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order. ~ Frank Herbert
It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia. ~ Sam Harris
As a first approximation, I define “belief” not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject’s investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. ~ Michel De Certeau
You’re not free until you’ve been made captive by supreme belief. ~ Marianne Moore
There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~ Frank A. Clark
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. ~ James Anthony Froude
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. ~ William Shenstone
The want of belief is a defect which ought to be concealed where it cannot be overcome. ~ Jonathan Swift
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 great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief. ~ George Henry Lewes
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. ~ Thomas Carlyle
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. ~ José Bergamín
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~ Bertrand Russell
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. ~ Edward Abbey
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. ~ John Burroughs
We are what we believe we are. ~ Benjamin N. Cardozo
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is easier to believe than to doubt. ~ E.D. Martin
Belief means not wanting to know what is true. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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
Let each man hope and believe what he can. ~ Charles Robert Darwin
Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One’s belief in truth begins with doubt of all truths one has believed hitherto. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is. ~ Norman Cousins
Belief is a deception you play upon yourself…. ~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? ~ Dr. Robert Anthony
They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. ~ Frank Herbert
Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~ Ralph Hodgson
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. ~ George Earle Buckle
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
We h ave all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. ~ James Baldwin
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ~ William James
Many people have died for their beliefs. The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe. ~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
