Quotes in Belief

When a theory really has got your brain in its grip, contradictory evidence - even evidence you already know - sometimes becomes invisible.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Man is what he believes.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.