Quotes about Belief

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient

It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...

Work! work! and God will work with us!

They mourned for his kind of Christianity, and he frankly scoffed at theirs; but both parties went on loving each other just the same.

A man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire at everything he sees, he is bound to hit something by and by.