Quotes about Belief

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder.

Confidence is characteristic of a person of hope

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views. - Cyprian Overbeck Wells: A Literary Mosaic

I should have more faith. I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.