There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Believe - Belief Quotes
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
I don’t object to Gladstone always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but merely to his belief that the Almighty put it there.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
There is nothing men more readily give themselves to than pushing their own beliefs. When ordinary means fail, they add commandment, violence, fire and sword.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you can believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.
We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears, which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
