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Belief Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has…
- After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?
- Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
- To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as…
- Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
- Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any…
- The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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