Believe Quote by Al-Maʿarri

“Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They told me…

— Leo Tolstoy

... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once…

— Margaret Sanger

Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was…

— Viktor Schauberger

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

— William James

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which…

— Juan Goytisolo

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and…

— David Hume

“The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.”

— Joseph Conrad

“It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

— Jock Sturges

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

— Paulo Coelho

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already…

— William James

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

— Jonathan Lethem