#belief

"The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence."

"I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are."

"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."

"I think a funny picture would have a caption that read, “Believe in yourself,” with an accompanying image of a wilting flower."

"Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours."

"It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God."

"I believe the way to master my destiny is to serve others. If I raise up others, am I not also raised up?"

"This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek."

"You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste."

"Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences."

"we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood"

"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

"I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby."

"Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?"

"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."

"We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when we trade understanding for belief. At best, we make an educated guess. At worst, we make blind leaps of faith."

"I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be."

"I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do."

"Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced."

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."