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.

George Bernard Shaw

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Sigmund Freud

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

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

Bertrand Russell

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

David Hockney

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

William Somerset Maugham

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent.

Irish Sayings

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Mario Cuomo

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

Chastity Bono

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Anne Rice

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Muhammad Ali

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

Clifton Fadiman

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

Miguel de Unamuno

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Malcolm Muggeridge

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.

Francis Quarles

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

Idries Shah

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

I don't know if I believe in God just as much as I don't know if gravity exists. All I know is that I feel it and I couldn't explain the world without it.

Kate Miller

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Cedric Hardwicke

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

Gerry Spence

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Robert Anton Wilson

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

William Lyon Phelps

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Donald Morgan

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

Max Born

(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

Howard Zinn

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Jeremy Collier

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Aaron Siskind

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Peter Marshall

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

Arnold Bennett

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

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Denis Waitley

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

James Joyce

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts.

Hermann Keyserling

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Lily Tomlin

The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded.

Eli Khamarov

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Ernest Dimnet

Don't let me catch anyone talking about the universe in my department.

Ernest Rutherford

If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Oscar Wilde

When my heart can beat no more I hope I die for a principle or a belief that I have lived for.

Tupac Shakur

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Phaedrus

This is catastrophic beyond belief.

Fred Kaplan

There is an increasing belief that we need to understand the structure better.

David Baltimore

It was my belief he was corrupt.

Michael Galardi

It is our belief that progress cannot be made through these formalized discussions.

Paula Dobriansky

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

Heidi Wills

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.

Richard Feynman

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

When we did 'Bull,' we did not have a brand. Our belief was we had to build the foundation.

Steve Koonin

My belief is he is going to change.

Michael Davis

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Sophia Loren

He has an ideological belief that endangered species should not be protected.

Brent Plater

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

Harlan Ellison

He acted in good faith. He honestly held the belief that what he was selling was FDA-approved.

Rocco Cipparone

If I didn't have it, if there wasn't that belief in me, there's no way I could have done it.

Michelle Monaghan

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates

My belief is that standardization and control of OPES is better than [the alternative].

Ned Freed

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Robert Oxton Bolton

We have a lot of belief in Bensalem and the location. We feel there's no place like this in the area.

Nicole Murphy

Unfortunately, we have the belief that if a little is good, a lot is better and that is where we get into trouble with the acetaminophen overdoses.

Dr. Donald Hardman

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Vannevar Bush

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Arthur Schnitzler

Our belief in God and knowing that He controls things, whether good or bad.

Marlon Anderson

I am very confident. I have a great belief in the team and will go for the win.

Arsene Wenger

Our belief is that we've found whatever it is to be found there.

Jim Margolin

We think we have something really special here, and I think this investment confirms that belief.

Melanie Deitch

There is a belief and a togetherness in the squad. We've got a happy camp.

Carl Robinson

Success begins with belief and ends with doubt.

Larina Kase

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Benjamin Whichcote

His belief is a firmly established delusion.

Gerald Zerkin

The belief was that you had to inoculate discipline.

Thomas Blomberg

It's not mistrust. It's a lack of belief that they, or you, can do what needs to be done.

Paul Glen

I have a very strong belief in what Gerard is trying to do here.

Thomas Horton

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Pliny the Elder

I think there is general belief here that agreement is still possible.

Jerry Moran

He did not suffer from a poor education; he suffered from the belief that he had a poor education.

George Wildman Ball

The belief is that girls tend to be better behaved.

Lisa Battaglino

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

It's our belief that presidential papers belong to all the American people.

David Ogden

Unless it's spiritual, a 'belief' can only be based on facts.

John Barker

I'm of the belief that the people want this, and the will of the people has spoken today.

Marc Basnight

It was a definite boost for our confidence and self belief.

Habibul Bashar

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Ambrose Bierce

He's not worthy of belief.

Daniel Castillo

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's my belief that by giving to God, he honors you.

Michael Fluker

It's our belief she knew where he had been for the past five days.

Steve Kaplan

Confirms our belief that the rangers' actions were justified.

Dave Brennan

Blind belief is dangerous.

Kenyan Proverb

Didn't have any belief in me. He thought I was a troublemaker. I was a questioner.

Priscilla Barnes

My religious belief requires me to oppose something like that.

Terry Parish

The guy is personable beyond belief. He knew no strangers.

Scott Boltz

I think he will not change his political belief.

Taku Yamasaki

These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims.

Kurtis Cooper

We always knew we had the talent. We always knew we could do it. It was just the belief. We believed.

Adrian Moss

If this is anything to do with the robbery, it's absolute stupidity beyond belief. That's the one thing you don't do.

Peter Lilley

Our belief is that you cannot and should not wait for the government to solve this problem.

Louis Burns

So outrageous that it's beyond belief.

Randy Levine

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

Evelyn Scott