Quotes about Belief

Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

The folly isn't mine. It's God's folly. Even in the old days he never asked men to do what was reasonable.

Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. Grant an idea or belief to be true, it says, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

Resign your destiny to higher powers.

in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.