In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue..

Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a p….

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief..

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without ob….

Good times weaken belief..

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears..

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of ear….

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference..

Doubt tempers belief with sanity..

True disciples are those who go beyond simply believing. They act out their belief..

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not kno….

Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of th….

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain..

The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for….

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one'….

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man..

You can't take treasured beliefs from the past and mock them..

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours..

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' b….

Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right..

Believing requires action..