belief Quotes

“I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:God belief

“People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

topic:reality belief imagination

“FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:knowledge belief faith

“one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:happiness belief

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:knowledge belief

“You have to believe. Otherwise it will never happen.”

― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

topic:belief

“Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a...”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:understanding reason belief experience faith

“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:religion belief

“OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:good belief

“Everything is endured—disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui—in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:life belief

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