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A belief is not true because it is useful. --Henri Frederic Amiel

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. --H.L. Mencken, Prejudices

Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving: it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. --Thomas Paine

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. --Jacob Chanowski

No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. --Bernard Levin, The Pendulum Years

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. --Michel De Montaigne

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. --Dorothy L. Sayers

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. --Mark Twain

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. --Ferdinand Magellan

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. --Louis Kronenberger

Those who believe that they are exclusively right are generally those who achieve something. --Aldus Huxley

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. --Alexander Hamilton

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. --Anatole France

You must do the things you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt