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The fact that believers have found joy and peace in believing gives us the right to say that the doctrine is a comfortable doctrine, and pleasant to the soul; but it does not give us the right to say that it is true. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford" title="William Kingdon Clifford">William Kingdon Clifford</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Departure_of_Siddhartha.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Departure_of_Siddhartha.jpg/220px-Departure_of_Siddhartha.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Departure_of_Siddhartha.jpg/330px-Departure_of_Siddhartha.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Departure_of_Siddhartha.jpg/440px-Departure_of_Siddhartha.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2022" data-file-height="2970" /></a><figcaption>Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it … or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. ~ <a href="/wiki/Guatama_Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Guatama Buddha">Guatama Buddha</a> </figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief" class="extiw" title="w:Belief">Belief</a></b> is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <i><a href="#Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)">Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</a></i> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Isn't it enough to see that a <a href="/wiki/Garden" class="mw-redirect" title="Garden">garden</a> is beautiful without having to believe that there are <a href="/wiki/Fairies" title="Fairies">fairies</a> at the bottom of it too? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams">Douglas Adams</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> (1979), <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Chapter_16" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">Chapter 16</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He who wishes to learn must believe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, <i>Sophistical Refutations</i>, ch. 2.2: 165b.</li> <li>Translation from <a href="/wiki/Josef_Pieper" title="Josef Pieper">Josef Pieper</a>, <i>Faith, Hope, Love</i> (1986). San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1997, p. 13.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?<br />No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.<br />One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in <i>anything</i>?"<br />"Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> (1997) <i>The Roving Mind</i>. Prometheus Books. p. 349</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a>, <i>Cat’s Eye</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are three kinds of objects of belief. Some are always believed and never understood, such as all history, which runs through temporal and human acts. Others must be understood to be believed, such as all human reasonings. Thirdly, there are those which must be believed first and understood later, like divine matters. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine of Hippo</a>, <i>Eighty-Three Different Questions</i> (388–395/7), 48.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands! Don't let Tinker die.</li> <li>Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._Barrie" title="J. M. Barrie">J. M. Barrie</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Pan">Peter Pan</a> or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up</i> (1904)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Einstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Einstein">Einstein</a>'s letters teach us impressively the <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a> that even an exact <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> like <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a> is based on fundamental beliefs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Max_Born" title="Max Born">Max Born</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/naturalphilosoph032159mbp#page/n133/search/impressively"><i>Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance</i> (1949) ch. 10, p. 123</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And what is meant by believing in Christ but just going with trusting and loving hearts, and committing to His love and power ourselves, our souls, and all that concerns us for time and eternity! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Kennedy_Hutchison_Boyd" title="Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd">Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd</a>, <i>Counsel and Comfort Spoken from a City Pulpit</i> (1864) ch. 17, p. 297.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it … or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. <ul><li>Attributed to <a href="/wiki/Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddha">Buddha</a> in <i>Life</i> (March 7, 1955), p. 102. Listed as "unverified in his writings" in <i> Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations</i> (1989). (This is a summary of the <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalama_Sutta">Kalama Sutta</a> attributed to Buddha.)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What motivates most <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a> purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct. Beyond that, the rising price has on its own generated additional buying enthusiasm, attracting purchasers who see the rise as validating an <a href="/wiki/Investment" title="Investment">investment</a> thesis. As “bandwagon” investors join any party, they create their own <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> – <i>for a while</i>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Warren_Buffett" title="Warren Buffett">Warren Buffett</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf">Chairman's Letter - 2011</a>. Berkshire Hathaway (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2012-02-25">February 25, 2012</span>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Ideo credendum quod incredibile.</i> <ul><li>It is believable because unbelievable. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burton" title="Robert Burton">Robert Burton</a>, <i>The Anatomy of Melancholy</i> (1621), Quoting Tertullian.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For fools are stubborn in their way,<br />As coins are harden'd by th' allay;<br />And obstinacy's ne'er so stiff<br />As when 'tis in a wrong belief. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(poet)" title="Samuel Butler (poet)">Samuel Butler</a>, <i>Hudibras</i>, Part III (1678), Canto II, line 481.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">John Calvin</a> <i>Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life</i>, pg. 57.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>Heroes and Hero Worship</i> (1840), Lecture IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world; he has climbed into a fixed star, and the earth whizzes below him like a zoetrope. Millions of mild black-coated men call themselves sane and sensible merely because they always catch the fashionable insanity, because they are hurried into madness after madness by the maelstrom of the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_K._Chesterton" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilbert K. Chesterton">Gilbert K. Chesterton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Heretics_(book)" title="Heretics (book)">Heretics</a></i> (1905).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We should never believe anything we have not dared to doubt. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina,_Queen_of_Sweden" class="extiw" title="w:Christina, Queen of Sweden">Christina, Queen of Sweden</a>, <i>Maxims of a Queen</i>, selected and translated by Una Birch (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907), p. 27.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To believe everything is weakness, to believe nothing folly. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina,_Queen_of_Sweden" class="extiw" title="w:Christina, Queen of Sweden">Christina, Queen of Sweden</a>, <i>Maxims of a Queen</i>, selected and translated by Una Birch (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907), p. 32.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford" title="William Kingdon Clifford">William Kingdon Clifford</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Belief" class="extiw" title="s:The Ethics of Belief">The Ethics of Belief</a>" (1877).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one long sin against mankind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford" title="William Kingdon Clifford">William Kingdon Clifford</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Belief" class="extiw" title="s:The Ethics of Belief">The Ethics of Belief</a>" (1877).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Belief, that sacred faculty which prompts the decisions of our will, and knits into harmonious working all the compacted energies of our being, is ours not for ourselves but for humanity. It is rightly used on truths which have been established by long experience and waiting toil, and which have stood in the fierce light of free and fearless questioning. Then it helps to bind men together, and to strengthen and direct their common action. It is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements, for the solace and private pleasure of the believer. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford" title="William Kingdon Clifford">William Kingdon Clifford</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Belief" class="extiw" title="s:The Ethics of Belief">The Ethics of Belief</a>" (1877).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The fact that believers have found joy and peace in believing gives us the right to say that the doctrine is a comfortable doctrine, and pleasant to the soul; but it does not give us the right to say that it is true. And the question which our conscience is always asking about that which we are tempted to believe is not, "Is it comfortable and pleasant?" but, "Is it true?" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford" title="William Kingdon Clifford">William Kingdon Clifford</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Belief" class="extiw" title="s:The Ethics of Belief">The Ethics of Belief</a>" (1877).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, <i>Aids to Reflection</i> (1825), Aphorism 25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of that belief. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, <i>Omniana</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Caleb_Colton" title="Charles Caleb Colton">Charles Caleb Colton</a>, <i>Lacon</i>, vol. I (1820), # 470.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I’ve always believed Frick to be detached from reality, but I thought he was just a megalomaniac, a manipulator, a con artist. Now I begin to slowly understand. He’s far more dangerous than any of those things. He’s a true Believer. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Katie_Coyle" title="Katie Coyle">Katie Coyle</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Coyle" class="extiw" title="w:Katie Coyle">Vivian Apple at the End of the World</a></i> (2013), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-544-34011-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-544-34011-4">ISBN 978-0-544-34011-4</a>, </small> pp. 221-222</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" title="Philip K. Dick">Philip K. Dick</a>, <i>I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon</i></li></ul></li> <li>I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Dixon" title="Patrick Dixon">Patrick Dixon</a> in <i>Building a Better Business</i> (2005), p. 14.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything. <ul><li>Casaubon, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binah" class="extiw" title="w:Binah">Binah</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum" title="Foucault's Pendulum">Foucault's Pendulum</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Umberto_Eco" title="Umberto Eco">Umberto Eco</a>, Chapter 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Dionysus</b>: He who believes needs no explanation.<br /> <b>Pentheus</b>: What's the worth in believing worthless things? <br /><b>Dionysus</b>: Much worth, but not worth telling you, it seems. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a> <i>Bacchae</i> l. 472, as translated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Teevan" class="extiw" title="w:Colin Teevan">Colin Teevan</a> (2002).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>He believed because he <i>wanted</i> to believe. And that, too, is madness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_F._Flynn" title="Michael F. Flynn">Michael Flynn</a>, <i>The Forest of Time</i> (1987), reprinted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Dozois" class="extiw" title="w:Gardner Dozois">Gardner Dozois</a> (ed.), <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year%27s_Best_Science_Fiction:_Fifth_Annual_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection">The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection</a></i>, p. 492</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Van_Helsing" class="extiw" title="w:Abraham Van Helsing">Abraham Van Helsing</a></b>: The <a href="/wiki/Strength" title="Strength">strength</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Vampire" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampire">vampire</a> is that <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> will not believe in him. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Fort" class="extiw" title="w:Garrett Fort">Garrett Fort</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula_(1931_English-language_film)" title="Dracula (1931 English-language film)">Dracula</a></i> (1931).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am a lover of <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>, a worshipper of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>, a celebrant at the altar of <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> and <a href="/wiki/Purity" title="Purity">purity</a> and tolerance. That is my <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, <a href="/wiki/Honesty" title="Honesty">honesty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a> and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bodies, what recourse of ancient <a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">laws</a> have I? None whatever. Nor would I ask for any. For unlike these blistering imbeciles my belief in my religion is strong and I know that <a href="/wiki/Lies" class="mw-redirect" title="Lies">lies</a> will always fail and indecency and intolerance will always perish. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fry" title="Stephen Fry">Stephen Fry</a>, in his "Trefusis Blasphemes" radio broadcast, as published in <i>Paperweight</i> (1993).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fuller" title="Thomas Fuller">Thomas Fuller</a>, <i>Gnomologia</i> (1732).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Gendlin" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Eugene Gendlin">Eugene Gendlin</a>, "The Listening Manual" in <i>Focusing</i> (1978), p. 138.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Heaven from the hopeless doubter<br />The true believer makes:<br />Against the darkness outer<br />The light God's likeness takes. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Watson_Gilder" title="Richard Watson Gilder">Richard Watson Gilder</a>, <i>The New Day</i> (New York: The Century Co., 1875), Part IV: XVII "He Knows Not the Path of Duty", line 9; p. 100.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Where knowledge suffices, we have no need of belief; but where knowledge does not prove its virtue or appears insufficient, we should not dispute the rights of belief. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, letter to J. D. Falk (January 25, 1813), in <i>Werke, Briefe und Gespräche</i> (Zurich: Artemis-Ausgabe, 1949), Vol. 22, p. 680.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hampton" title="Christopher Hampton">Christopher Hampton</a> Don, in <i>The Philanthropist</i> (1969), scene 6</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>I cannot comment on your beliefs. What appears self-evident to one person may seem to another observer to be entirely the product of an idiosyncratic bent. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Hughes_(writer)" title="Matthew Hughes (writer)">Matthew Hughes</a>, <i>Majestrum</i> (2006), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-59780-061-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-59780-061-9">ISBN 1-59780-061-9</a>, </small> p. 151</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"</p><p> "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.</p> <ul><li><i>Brave New World</i> by <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a>, ch. 17</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Be not <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">afraid</a> of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. Believe that life <i>is</i> worth living, and your belief will help create the <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, in "Is Life Worth Living?" <i>The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy</i> (1897).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Except ye see <a href="/wiki/Signs" class="mw-disambig" title="Signs">signs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wonders" title="Wonders">wonders</a>, ye will not believe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, as quoted in Gospel of John 4:48</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Put your finger <a href="/wiki/Wounds" title="Wounds">here</a>; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop <a href="/wiki/Doubting" class="mw-redirect" title="Doubting">doubting</a> and believe. <ul><li>Jesus, John 20:27</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Keller" title="Helen Keller">Helen Keller</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Optimism_(Keller)" class="extiw" title="s:Optimism (Keller)">Optimism</a></i> (1903)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Keller" title="Helen Keller">Helen Keller</a>, <i>We Bereaved</i> (1929)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If it were so, as conceited sagacity, proud of not being deceived, thinks, that we should believe nothing that we cannot see with our physical eyes, then we first and foremost ought to give up believing in love. If we were to do so and do it out of fear lest we be deceived, would we not then be deceived? We can, of course, be deceived in many ways. We can be deceived by believing what is untrue, but we certainly are also deceived by not believing what is true. We can be deceived by appearances, but we certainly are also deceived by the sagacious appearance, by the flattering conceit that considers itself absolutely secure against being deceived. Which deception is more dangerous? Whose recovery is more doubtful, that of the one who does not see, or that of the person who sees and yet does not see? What is more difficult—to awaken someone who is sleeping or to awaken someone who, awake, is dreaming that he is awake? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard">Søren Kierkegaard</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Works_of_Love_(Kierkegaard)" title="Works of Love (Kierkegaard)">Works of Love</a></i> (1847), as translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (1995)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Believing something to be true is a complicated affair. It may consist in taking something to be true, pure and simple; or it may consist in believing, but not knowing, something to be true—that is, entertaining doubts about its truth. In the former case the difference between belief and knowledge may not arise. It does in the latter. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kohl_(educator)" class="extiw" title="w:Herbert Kohl (educator)">Herbert Kohl</a>, <i>The Age of Complexity</i> (1965), p. 33.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To succeed, we must first believe that we can. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Korda" class="extiw" title="w:Michael Korda">Michael Korda</a>, as quoted in <i>Marketing Construction Services</i> (2000) by Paul Pryor, p. 14.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Max_Lucado" title="Max Lucado">Max Lucado</a>, <i>He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I think it’s okay to believe in anything that makes you a better person, whether it’s real or not. You have to believe in something. Me, I choose to believe in nothing, <i>with all my heart,</i> and I am a better person for it. <ul><li>Adam Marek, <i>Grandma’s Dragon,</i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Laws" class="extiw" title="w:Robin Laws">Robin D. Laws</a> (ed.) <i>The Lion and the Aardvark</i> (2013), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-908983-02-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-908983-02-2">ISBN 978-1-908983-02-2</a>, p. 223</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>, but you <a href="/wiki/Knew" class="mw-redirect" title="Knew">knew</a> they'd never believe you? <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Marsilii" class="extiw" title="w:Bill Marsilii">Bill Marsilii</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Rossio" class="extiw" title="w:Terry Rossio">Terry Rossio</a>, in <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_Vu_(2006_film)" title="Déjà Vu (2006 film)"><i>Déjà Vu</i> (2006 film)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for—because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Marshall_(preacher)" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Marshall (preacher)">Peter Marshall</a>, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session (April 18, 1947); reported in <i>Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, 1947–1948</i> (1949), p. 20, Senate Doc. 80–170.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Belief is a beautiful armor, but makes for the heaviest sword; like punching underwater, you never can hit who you're trying for. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Mayer" title="John Mayer">John Mayer</a>, <i>Belief.</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The long duration of a belief, he thought, is at least proof of an adaption in it to some portion or other of the human mind; and if, on digging down to the root, we do not find, as is generally the case, some truth, we shall find some natural want or requirement of human nature which the doctrine in question is fitted to satisfy: among which wants the instincts of selfishness and of credulity have a place, but by no means an exclusive one. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">John Stuart Mill</a> on <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Coleridge</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=J6I8AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA395">Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical</a></i> (1859) Vol. 1, p. 395.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determine, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Areopagitica" class="extiw" title="s:Areopagitica">Areopagitica</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You will not enter <a href="/wiki/Paradise" title="Paradise">Paradise</a> until you believe and you will not believe until you <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> each other. Shall I show you something that, if you did, you would love each other? Spread <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> among yourselves.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a>, <i>Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 54</i> narrated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hurairah" class="extiw" title="w:Abu Hurairah">Abu Hurairah</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a>, <i>Essays</i> (1580-88).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We <i>believe</i>, because we <i>love</i>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Newman" title="John Henry Newman">John Henry Newman</a>, "Love the Safeguard of Faith against Superstition" (preached on 21 May 1839), in <i>Oxford University Sermons</i> (London, 1880), p. 236.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Consciously or unconsciously, the strategy of true believers is to isolate themselves from skeptics. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Park" class="extiw" title="w:Robert L. Park">Robert L. Park</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Science" class="extiw" title="w:Voodoo Science">Voodoo Science</a></i> (2000), p. 122</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Incrédules les plus crédules. Ils croient les miracles de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Mose.</i> <ul><li>The incredulous are the most credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blaise_Pascal" title="Blaise Pascal">Blaise Pascal</a>, <i>Pensèes</i> (1669), II, XVII. 120.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I firmly believe that everyone should be free to pursue their desires as long as it does not harm others or society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, <i>Interview with Dagmara K. at Spillwords</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe that the human being is the most complicated chapter of existence, with thousands of dimensions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, <i>Interview with Dagmara K. at Spillwords</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The simple believes everything, But the prudent man carefully considers his ways. <ul><li>Proverbs 14:15, World English Bible</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Seeing is beleeving. <ul><li><i>Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina</i>, a collection of proverbs in English and Latin that was published in London in 1639 by John Clarke (1596?-1658).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Q">Q</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Q"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>And be not weak-hearted, nor grieve, and you will have the upper hand if you are believers. If a wound has afflicted you, a wound like it has also afflicted the (disbelieving) people. And We bring these days to men by turns, that Allah may know those who believe and take witnesses from among you. And Allah loves not the wrongdoers, And that He may purge those who believe and deprive the disbelievers of blessings. Do you think that you will enter the Garden while Allah has nor yet known those from among you who strive hard (nor) known the steadfast? And certainly you desired death before you met it. So indeed you have seen it now while you look (at it). <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> 3:138-142</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Believe as hard as you want to. But convincing yourself however firmly still can’t change the reality of things. Seeing is believing. But seeing isn’t knowing. Believing isn’t knowing. Subjective convictions are meaningless in science, and eyewitness testimony is the least reliable form of evidence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aron_Ra" title="Aron Ra">Aron Ra</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80nhqGfN6t8">"4th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism"</a>, <i>YouTube</i> (December 25, 2007)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley%27s_Believe_It_or_Not!" class="extiw" title="w:Ripley's Believe It or Not!">Believe it or not</a> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ripley" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Ripley">Robert Ripley</a>'s debuted this phrase as the new name of his 1919 comic strip.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you believe in the sinfulness of the world, for instance, then you will search out from normal sense data those facts that confirm your belief. But beyond that, at other levels you also organize your mental world in such a way that attracts to yourself events that - again - will confirm your beliefs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Roberts" title="Jane Roberts">Jane Roberts</a>, <i>The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events</i>, Session 833, Page 163.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_William_Robertson" title="Frederick William Robertson">Frederick William Robertson</a>, <i>Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel</i> (1869) p. 347.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man is a credulous animal, and must believe <i>something</i>; in the absence of good ground for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, in "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" in <i>Unpopular Essays</i> (1950).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination. Freud has shown how largely our dreams at night are the pictured fulfilment of our wishes; he has, with an equal measure of truth, said the same of day-dreams; and he might have included the day-dreams which we call beliefs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, <i>Sceptical Essays</i> (1928), Ch. 2: Dreams and Facts</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ecosystems majorly shape culture — but then that culture can be exported and persist in radically different places for millennia. Stated most straightforwardly, most of earth’s humans have inherited their beliefs about the nature of <a href="/wiki/Birth" title="Birth">birth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> and everything in between and thereafter from preliterate Middle Eastern pastoralists. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky" title="Robert Sapolsky">Robert Sapolsky</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behave_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Behave (book)">Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst</a></i> (2017), p. 313.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Now God be praised, that to believing souls,<br />Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VI, Part II">Henry VI, Part II</a></i>, Act II, Scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Stands not within the prospect of belief. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> (1605), Act I, scene 3, line 74.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One feels weak only when they believe someone will offer support. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a>, <i>Dhitha</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Shaw" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Shaw">Bernard Shaw</a>, <i>The Devil's Disciple</i> (1901), Act III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe this with all my heart. But not even my sincerest belief, I fear, is sufficient to make it true. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shunn" class="extiw" title="w:William Shunn">William Shunn</a>, <i>Inclination</i> (2006), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), <i>Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2007,</i> p. 234</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Religious_delusion" title="Religious delusion">religious delusion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">eternity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Infinity" title="Infinity">infinity</a> have come within and are under the person’s control. This is unlike the experience with non-psychotic religious beliefs, which are spiritual or <a href="/wiki/Metaphors" title="Metaphors">metaphorical</a>, usually discussed with others with thoughtful reticence and acknowledgment of our human limitations, and sometimes are held with <a href="/wiki/Doubt" title="Doubt">doubts</a> or at least understanding that others may have doubts. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sims_(psychiatrist)" class="extiw" title="w:Andrew Sims (psychiatrist)">Andrew Sims</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/members/sigs/spirituality-spsig/religious-delusions-andrew-sims.pdf?sfvrsn=4c97f4cd_2">Religious delusions</a></i>, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2012), p. 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For the heart, it needs to believe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Soloveychik" title="Simon Soloveychik">Simon Soloveychik</a>, <i>Parenting for Everyone</i> (1989).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Take you up when you feeling down <br /> When you're sick he will come around <br /> Takes his cures from out the ground <br /> He's the one who can hypnotize <br /> And you'll never believe your eyes <br /> He can cause the dead to rise. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10cc" class="extiw" title="w:10cc">10cc</a> Erik Stewart and Graham Gouldman. <i>Baron Samedi</i> from the album <i>Sheet Music</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Szenes" class="extiw" title="w:Hannah Szenes">Hannah Szenes</a>, <i>Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary</i> (1938).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Know how to rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb" title="Nassim Nicholas Taleb">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a>, <i>The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable</i> (2007) Ch. 13: Appelles the Painter, or What Do You Do If You Cannot Predict? p. 203.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is very difficult to reason people out of beliefs that they didn’t reason themselves into. <ul><li>Amy Tuteur, M.D., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.skepticalob.com/2016/05/the-theology-of-quackery-how-pseudoscience-has-become-a-secular-religion.html">"The theology of quackery; how pseudoscience has become a secular religion"</a>, <i>The Skeptical OB</i> (May 6, 2016)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Only those who doubt really believe, and those who do not doubt are neither tempted against their faith nor do they truly believe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno" title="Miguel de Unamuno">Miguel de Unamuno</a>, <i>The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho</i> (1914), Part 2, Ch. 10, in <i>Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno</i>, Volume 3, translated by Anthony Kerrigan (Bollingen Series LXXXV.3/Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 174</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>[[Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. <ul><li>David Foster Wallace]], <i>Infinite Jest</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring <a href="/wiki/Scripture" class="mw-redirect" title="Scripture">scripture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Myth" class="mw-redirect" title="Myth">myths</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_D._Watson" title="James D. Watson">James D. Watson</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ibQrWBTELLsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=it%20is%20no%20coincidence&f=false">Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science</a></i>. 2010. p. 18. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780375727146" title="Special:BookSources/9780375727146">ISBN 9780375727146</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Avoid+Boring+People%3A+Lessons+from+a+Life+in+Science&rft.date=2010&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B18&rft.isbn=9780375727146&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DibQrWBTELLsC%26printsec%3Dfrontcover%23v%3Donepage%26q%3Dit%2520is%2520no%2520coincidence%26f%3Dfalse&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Belief"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> (1st edition, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Truth's one reward, belief! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Watts-Dunton" title="Theodore Watts-Dunton">Theodore Watts-Dunton</a>, "Christmas at the Mermaid: David Gwynn's Story", line 9, in <i>The Coming of Love and Other Poems</i> (London: John Lane, 1897), p. 99</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Werfel" title="Franz Werfel">Franz Werfel</a>, as quoted in <i>Philippine Studies</i> (1953) by Ateneo de Manila, p. 269; also in <i>Everest: The Mountaineering History</i> (2000) by Walt Unsworth, p. 100</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I once had an understanding that everything would go my way <br /> But now we’ve come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Wessels" title="Charlotte Wessels">Charlotte Wessels</a>, <i>Here Come the Vultures</i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Contradiction" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Human Contradiction">The Human Contradiction</a></i> (2014)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. … I am an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Absurdist" class="mw-redirect" title="Absurdist">absurdist</a> and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joss_Whedon" title="Joss Whedon">Joss Whedon</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EReyF2ZzXGA">Joss Whedon: Atheist & Absurdist</a>", comments made in a Q&A-session in Australia, while promoting his movie <a href="/wiki/Serenity_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serenity (film)"><i>Serenity</i> (2005)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Will" title="George Will">George Will</a>, column, March 14, 2014, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-democrats-policies-make-income-inequality-worse/2014/03/14/97d5074e-aada-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html">"Democrats are making income inequality worse"</a> at <i>washingtonpost.com</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I had never doubted my own <a href="/wiki/Ability" title="Ability">abilities</a>, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Wilson" title="Colin Wilson">Colin Wilson</a> in <i>Postscript to the Outsider </i>, p. 3 (1967)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson" title="Robert Anton Wilson">Robert Anton Wilson</a>, in <i>Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati</i> (1977).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There littleness was not; the least of things<br />Seemed infinite; and there his spirit shaped<br />Her prospects, nor did he believe,—He saw. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>The Excursion</i> (1814), Book I, Stanza 12.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One solace yet remains for us who came <br /> Into this world in days when story lacked <br /> Severe research, that in our hearts we know <br /> How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, <br /> Assent is power, belief the soul of fact. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>Memorials of a Tour in Italy</i> (1837), IV ("story" refers to History).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am not going to question your <a href="/wiki/Opinions" class="mw-redirect" title="Opinions">opinions</a>. I am not going to meddle with your belief. I am not going to dictate to you mine. All that I say is, examine; enquire. Look into the <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> of things. Search out the ground of your opinions, the <i>for</i> and the <i>against</i>. Know <i>why</i> you believe, understand <i>what</i> you believe, and possess a reason for the <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> that is in you. ... <br /> But your <a href="/wiki/Spiritual" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual">spiritual</a> <a href="/wiki/Teachers" title="Teachers">teachers</a> caution you against enquiry — tell you not to <a href="/wiki/Read" class="mw-redirect" title="Read">read</a> certain <a href="/wiki/Books" title="Books">books</a>; not to <a href="/wiki/Listen" class="mw-redirect" title="Listen">listen</a> to certain <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>; to beware of profane <a href="/wiki/Learning" title="Learning">learning</a>; to submit your <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>, and to receive their <a href="/wiki/Doctrines" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctrines">doctrines</a> for <a href="/wiki/Truths" class="mw-redirect" title="Truths">truths</a>. Such <a href="/wiki/Advice" title="Advice">advice</a> renders them suspicious counsellors. By their own <a href="/wiki/Creed" title="Creed">creed</a> you hold your reason from their <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. Go! ask them why he gave it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Wright" title="Frances Wright">Frances Wright</a>, <i>A Course of Popular Lectures</i> (1829), Lecture III : Of the more Important Divisions and Essential Parts of Knowledge.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright" title="Frank Lloyd Wright">Frank Lloyd Wright</a>, as quoted in <i>My Favorite Quotations</i> (1990) by <a href="/wiki/Norman_Vincent_Peale" title="Norman Vincent Peale">Norman Vincent Peale</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Y"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>What ardently we wish, we soon believe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Young" title="Edward Young">Edward Young</a>, <i>Night Thoughts</i> (1742-1745), Night VII, Part II, line 1311.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 66-67.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Fere libenter homines id, quod volunt, credunt.</i> <ul><li>Men willingly believe what they wish.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>, <i>Bellum Gallicum</i>, III, 18.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no unbelief;<br />Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod<br />And waits to see it push away the clod,<br /> He trusts in God. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_York_Case&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elizabeth York Case (page does not exist)">Elizabeth York Case</a>, <i>Unbelief</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>Montaigne</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Credat Judæus Apella non ego.</i> <ul><li>The Jew Apella may believe this, not I.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, <i>Satires</i>, I. 5. 100.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Better trust all and be deceived,<br /> And weep that trust, and that deceiving,<br />Than doubt one heart that, if believed,<br /> Had blessed one's life with true believing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fanny_Kemble" title="Fanny Kemble">Fanny Kemble</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O thou, whose days are yet all spring,<br /> Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;<br />Experience is a dumb, dead thing;<br /> The victory's in believing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell" title="James Russell Lowell">James Russell Lowell</a>, <i>Winter Meditations</i>, p. 113.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They believed—faith, I'm puzzled—I think I may call<br />Their belief a believing in nothing at all,<br />Or something of that sort; I know they all went<br />For a general union of total dissent. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell" title="James Russell Lowell">James Russell Lowell</a>, <i>Fable for Critics</i> (1848), line 851.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Areopagitica" title="Areopagitica">Areopagitica</a></i> (1644).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a>, <i>Essays</i>, <i>Of Divine Ordinances</i>, Book I, Chapter XXXI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Tarde quæ credita lædunt credimus.</i> <ul><li>We are slow to believe what if believed would hurt our feelings.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i>Heroides</i>, II. 9.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And when religious sects ran mad,<br /> He held, in spite of all his learning,<br />That if a man's belief is bad,<br /> It will not be improved by burning. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winthrop_Mackworth_Praed" title="Winthrop Mackworth Praed">Winthrop Mackworth Praed</a>, <i>Poems of Life and Manners</i>, Part II. The Vicar, Stanza 9.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais" title="François Rabelais">François Rabelais</a>, <i>Works</i>, Book IV, Chapter XXXVIII. ("Tale of a Tub," title of a work of Swift's).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have believed the best of every man,<br />And find that to believe it is enough<br />To make a bad man show him at his best,<br />Or even a good man swing his lantern higher. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats" title="William Butler Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a>, <i>Deirdre</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers"><i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belief&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><small>Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895).</small> </p> <ul><li>Begin by regarding every thing from a moral point of view, and you will end by believing in God. <ul><li>Dr. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Arnold" title="Thomas Arnold">Thomas Arnold</a>, p. 22.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people he meets on the street for fear they may touch him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phillips_Brooks" title="Phillips Brooks">Phillips Brooks</a>, p. 23.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If that impression does not remain on this intrepid and powerful people, into whose veins all nations pour their mingling blood, it will be our immense calamity. Public action, without it, will lose the dignity of consecration. Eloquence, without it, will miss what is loftiest, will give place to a careless and pulseless disquisition, or fall to the flatness of political slang. Life, without it, will lose its sacred and mystic charm. 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