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Belief Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
- We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.
- All the great ages have been ages of belief.
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
- The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious.…
- That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
- Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
- Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the…
- Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our…
- As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
- Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they…
- The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
- What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all…
- Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.…
- Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
- We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of…
- Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.
- The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
- The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief
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