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Belief Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
- Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
- Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts…
- WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves…
- SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now…
- RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
- PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
- POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by…
- MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod…
- INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians,…
- BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
- Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
- Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
- optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.…
- OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.…
- Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
- Faith. Belief without evidencein what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, ofthings without parallel.
More Belief Quotes
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach