belief Quotes

“At the root of the Christian life lies belief in the invisible. The object of the Christian's faith is unseen reality.”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

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“Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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“Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

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“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

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“The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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