1. Guatama Buddha - “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

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2. Eleanor Roosevelt - “I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”

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3. Mahatma Gandhi - “Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.”

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4. Jack Handey - “We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.”

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5. Proverb - “Believe that you have it, and you have it.”

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6. Proverb - “If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.”

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7. The Bible - “All things are possible to him that believeth.”

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8. Steven Wright - “One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, 'Didn't you see the stop sign?' I said, 'Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read'”

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9. Frank Lloyd Wright - “The thing you really believe in always happens ... and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

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10. Oscar Wilde - “I can believe anything, provided it is quite incredible.”

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11. Unknown - “I don't believe in atheism.”

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12. Harry S. Truman - “I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.”

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13. Clarence Thomas - “I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.”

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14. James E. Talmage - “Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.”

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15. Freya Stark - “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

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16. Stanislaus I - “To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.”

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17. Dame Edith Sitwell - “The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”

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18. Isaac Bashevis Singer - “You must believe in free will; there is no choice.”

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19. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

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20. Bertrand Russell - “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

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21. Bertrand Russell - “What is wanted is not the will to believe but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.”

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22. Bertrand Russell - “Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”

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23. John Ryman - “I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.”

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24. James Whitcomb Riley - “'Lord, I believe: help Thou mine unbelief.' We must believe— Being from birth endowed with love and trust— Born unto loving;—and how simply just That love—that faith!—even in the blossom-face The babe drops dreamward in its resting place, Intuitively cons”

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25. Thomas Paine - “It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself.”

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