Believe - Quotes
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
I believe in the America people`s ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything - anything - be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.
The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.
Contrary to what marketers would have you believe, you are not what you own. You are you, and things are things; no physical or mathematical alchemy can alter these boundaries, despite what that full-page magazine ad or clever commercial tries to tell you.
Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.
Secular people don`t believe in life after death, but rather, they believe in life before death.
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.
You have to ask yourself, why is there political correctness? The only answer is because you`re afraid to say what you honestly believe.
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don`t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow.
All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often they almost come to believe it... Though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.
The good thing about science is that it`s true whether or not you believe in it.