Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
- E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education
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
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
- Thomas Fuller
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
- John Lancaster Spalding
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
- E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
- Nicholas de Chamfort
Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
- Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Laurens van der Post
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Agar
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
- Francis Bacon
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment
- Seneca
Never dull your shine for somebody else.
- Tyra Banks
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
- Lauren Bacall
Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself - love yourself.
- Lady Gaga
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
- Adele Brookman
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Alva Edison
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
- William Hazlitt
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
- Arthur Schnitzler
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
- Bertrand Russell
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
- James A Froude
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
- John Burroughs
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
- John Stuart Mill
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaign
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
- Oscar Wilde
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- W K Clifford
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
