Believe Quote by Bertrand Russell

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

— William Wordsworth

“William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt' ... what is…

— Bertrand Russell

I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather,…

— Bernadette Roberts

“To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose…

— Stephen Richards

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

— Rebecca Goldstein

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

— William Shakespeare

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

— P.D. Ouspensky

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

— Eliphas Levi

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

— Franz Kafka

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

— Dallas Willard

The will of man is the will of God.

— Kedar Joshi

What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn’t exist there, it’s not supposed to exist here.…

— Bill Johnson