Belief Quote by Friedrich Schiller

Personal belief is often a poor substitute for the truth.

— Naqi Mirza

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

— Bertrand Russell

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

— Ludwig von Mises

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Belief creates the actual fact.

— William James

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

— W. Somerset Maugham

A belief is not true because it is useful

— Anonymous

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

— Terence McKenna

The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

— Ken Wilber

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

— Kevin Powers