#belief

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

"What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something."

"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

"In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not..."

"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."

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

"To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain."

"Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say; be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!"

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature."

"What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve."

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

"What is false about hope?"

"What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is."

"If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world."

"There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god."

"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"

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

"The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe."

"Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know."