Belief Quotes

5318 Belief quotes by 2883 unique authors

No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter… — Stephen King
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed… — Abraham Lincoln
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. — Adolf Hitler
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of… — Antonin Scalia
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.… — Richard Dawkins
All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them. — Richard Dawkins
There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god,… — Dan Barker
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as… — Charles Darwin
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or… — Thomas Paine
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious… — Chapman Cohen
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be… — Francis Crick
I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply… — Steven Weinberg
[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. — Steven Weinberg
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."… — Bertrand Russell
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… — Bertrand Russell
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in… — Clarence Darrow
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation… — John F. Kerry
People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of… — Ron Reagan
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs.… — Ronald Reagan
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of… — Thomas Jefferson
I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community. — Terry Tempest Williams

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