Quotes on Believe

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

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

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.

I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.