Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief..

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent..

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist..

Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who w….

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success..

All beliefs are bald ideas..

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal..

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people..

I have a very strong belief in God..

Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor..

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen..

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought..

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living..

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous..

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector..

It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a de….

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt..

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly..

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious..