Belief quotations

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◆ It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

- John Green99

◆ belief is the death of intelligence.

- Robert Anton Wilson99

◆ Some things have to be believed to be seen.

- Madeleine L'Engle99

◆ Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

- Joseph Campbell99

◆ I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

- George Carlin99

◆ Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can't believe her, even if I could believe her.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

- Arthur Conan Doyle99

◆ People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ Weak people believe in revenge. Strong people believe in forgiving. And Intelligent people believe in ignoring!

- Simi Ngr99

◆ God, I am weak. Help me everyday to put my trust in you. Help me to believe that you and I can do anything together. - Psalm 62

- Bible99