#belief

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."

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

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them."

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."

"For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?"

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

"We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in."

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

"To become one who believes two become one, you need love in your life."

"Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief."

"If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork."

"If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse."

"Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God."

"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."

"Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."

"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M"is silent."

"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."

"I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!"

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