Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

Believe the best of everybody.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?

The First Amendment isn’t about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

What you believe yourself to be, you are.