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Belief Quotes - Page 38

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

"‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.122, Baker Books

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 that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

"Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”,“The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.219, Modern Library

It is very, very dangerous to come between a person and their beliefs.

Louise Penny (2012). “The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.7188, e-artnow

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.2350, Penguin

Zero, zero belief in myself. And it's changed somewhat, but there's still a lot of that in me.

"Who is Larry David?". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 1, 2015.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.379, St. Martin's Press

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.14, Vintage

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.5823, Delphi Classics