#belief

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#belief

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. ↗

— William Faulkner

#memory #recollection #belief

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#belief

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#knowledge #belief

You cannot believe everything you hear ↗

— Jude Morgan

#gossip #lies #truth #gossip

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#honesty #values #honesty

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#inspirational #island #metaphysical-beliefs #metaphysics #faith

Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#speechless #stunned #nobility

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gods #occult #encouragement

He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say. ↗

— Dan Brown

#belief #faith #religion #faith