belief Quotes

We are convinced by a speaker's good character when their speech makes us trust them. We believe good people more easily and completely than others, especially when there's no definite answer and opinions are split.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

A statement is convincing and believable either because it's obviously true or because it seems proven by other statements that are true.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.