Belief Quotes

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Laurens van der Post

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
- Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
- Nicholas de Chamfort

It is easier to believe than to doubt.
- E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
- John Lancaster Spalding

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
- Thomas Fuller

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell

It is easier to believe than to doubt.
- E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878