Belief

Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – Ezra Pound

This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. – Orson Scott Card

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. – Seneca

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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 the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. – Thomas Fuller

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Convictions are more dangerous enemies to truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “IX.Man by Himself,” Human, All-Too-Human

He who does not know how to believe, should not know. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. – Felix Cohen

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. – John Lancaster Spalding

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Not… what opinions are held, but… how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950

When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself…. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh