Quotes

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

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

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
-Francis Bacon

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself - love yourself.
-Lady Gaga

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
-William Hazlitt

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-John Burroughs

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment
-Seneca

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
-Adele Brookman

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
-Arthur Schnitzler

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
-John Stuart Mill

It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
-W K Clifford

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

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

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

Never dull your shine for somebody else.
-Tyra Banks

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
-Bertrand Russell

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
-Michel Eyquem De Montaign

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
-William James

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

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

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
-Herbert Agar

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
-Lauren Bacall

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
-Thomas Alva Edison

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
-James A Froude

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
-Oscar Wilde