Faith Quote by Richard Baker

“Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often…

— Persia Woolley

“Believing passionately in the palpably not true... is the chief occupation of mankind.”

— H.L. Mencken

“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish…

— Gregory Maguire

“He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.”

— Davis Bunn

“They had their beliefs, and those beliefs were stronger than any belief they had in him.”

— David Levithan

“People never believed of others what they couldn't imagine of themselves.”

— Meljean Brook

“The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.”

— Anonymous

“Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any…

— Yukio Mishima

“They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He was beholden to no one, and would never take on trust what others might maintain to be true without himself coming to an…

— Richard Feynman

“It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as pride.”

— Susan Ferrier

“Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.”

— Gordon H. Clark