Quotes on Belief

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.