Belief

Famous quotes containing the word belief:

“The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate”
—Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)

“Religion ... may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)