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Belief Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear…
- [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
- We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith."…
- Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they…
- I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
- More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for…
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable,…
- I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider…
- RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are…
- The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each…
- Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities…
- I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty.…
- Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in…
- A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
- Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed,…
- Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.
- Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.
- The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
- One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring…
- Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
- All movements go too far.
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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- 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