Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel Johnson – Confidence, Belief
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Sigmund Freud – Belief
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Goethe – Belief, Death
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Goethe – Opinion, Belief
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Goethe – Belief, Magic
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
George Bernard Shaw – Belief, Happiness
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Maya Angelou – Belief, Venture
Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.
Belief
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
Walter Bagehot – Belief
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie – Belief, Motivation
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Belief
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle – Belief
It is wrong, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Believing upon insufficient evidence
The goodness and greatness of a man do not justify us in accepting a belief upon the warrant of his authority, unless there are reasonable grounds for supposing that he knew the truth of what he was saying.
Truth and belief
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning.
