It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
- George Bernard Shaw

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
- Immanuel Kant

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
- Felix Cohen

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
- Edward Abbey

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.
- R. I. Fitzhenry

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
- Winston Churchill

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Laurens van der Post

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
- Willa Sibert Cather

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
- Mohandas Gandhi

You can’t divorce religious belief and public service I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
- Harvey MacKay

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
- Thomas Fuller

I love an opposition that has convictions.
- Frederick the Great

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
- Muhammad Ali

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it – except in the case of the very purest, and they are rare.
- Simone Weil

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

It is easier to believe than to doubt.
- E.D. Martin

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Agar

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
- Edith Hamilton

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
- Ralph Hodgson

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- George Bernard Shaw

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Charles F. Kettering

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
- Deepak Chopra

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- Saint Augustine

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
- Stuart Chase

Not… what opinions are held, but… how they are held:  instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
- Bertrand Russell

All money is a matter of belief.
- Adam Smith

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
- Henry Miller

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
- Claude Levi-Strauss

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
- Bishop Francis Kelly