belief Quotes

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“a belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

topic:evil belief

“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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“I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

topic:God belief

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light...”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

topic:beauty belief stars

“I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. That which can be imagined is as much an approximation to truth as that which can be proved by mathematics.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

topic:truth belief imagination

“So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:religion reason belief

“I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:belief trust

“I had a new vision in front of me, and I always feel that if I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

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