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Belief Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
- Any belief worth having must survive doubt
- We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable…
- Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.
- There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born…
- The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however…
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
- A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
- In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it…
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