If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything.
Believe - Belief Quotes
Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. (Mark 9:24)
You should only believe half of what you see, and none of which you hear.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.
I am convinced that if a dozen skeptics were to draw up in parallel columns a list of the events narrated in the gospels, which they consider credible, and incredible respectively, their lists would be different in several particulars. Belief is literally a matter of taste.
We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
You believe what you want to believe.
Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for nonsmart reasons.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not make men believe.
Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more.
