Quotessence
Home / Topics / True Believer Quotes

True Believer Quotes

Browse 161 quotes about True Believer.

Related topics

AtheismIfsPeopleMenThinkingWorldBelieveKnowsSelfBeliefFactsPositive AtheismWay

True Believer Quotes

“There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.”

WorldReligionOrderHeavenMillionsHellAtheismComplicatedBelieverScoreRitualCreedsHeaven And HellSectsTrue BelieverFortresses
Book:The Profits of Religion
Create image

“One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.”

ChildrenPersonsMightEyeRememberGrowing UpGrowingHeardEvidenceEarsBelieverSensesMaturityHis EyesMatureSavagesMistrustTrue BelieverIrrationalityMature PersonGathering Data
Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
Create image

“Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.”

ReligionUniverseJesusChristianityAtheismMiracleRegardSacredIslamAtheistJewCreatorBelieverDivinityConsistentRejectsPropositionsJudaismWorldviewQuranInfallibleAtheisticTrue BelieverChristianity And Islam
Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
Create image

“But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.”

KnowsSeemsActionMoralPraiseIslamRevengeBelieverCrueltyInstanceProphetBigotryCivilizedSentimentsSteadyBeneficialHurtfulTreacheryInhumanityTrue BelieverCivilized SocietyNarration
Book:Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
Create image

“A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'”

IfsKnowsMenArtSaidRealityMightActionEvilPleasureHe ManConscienceMarkFaultsCommittedBelieverMuhammadForsakeTrue Believer
Author:Muhammad
Create image

“I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.”

ThinkingGovernmentNationsPresidentEconomyGenerationsParticularBattleJudgmentEverydayBelieverRadicalPresident ObamaEpicEveryday LifeFree MarketOur GenerationCruzTrue BelieverEpic Battle
Author:Ted Cruz
Create image

“Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change.... Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.”

WorldWayPainSweetBalanceBelieverSpotsYearningSkepticTrue BelieverChange YourselfScoffing
Book:Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
Create image

“Startups are painful, stressful and at times demoralizing. You need to be a true believer in the vision of what you are doing. You need to passionate about it and love what you’re doing. If you don’t, there is no way you can sustain the hours, stress and disappointment. There’s no way you’re going to be able to convince investors, customers and most importantly recruit a world-class team if you not building something you think is going to change the world.”

IfsThinkingWorldWayNeedsAbleHoursVisionClassTeamBuildingAnd LoveStressPassionatePainfulDisappointmentCustomersBelieverChanging The WorldConvinceInvestorsStressfulDoing YouTrue BelieverWorld ClassRecruitDemoralizingBuilding Something
Author:Steve Blank
Create image

“I’m a true believer in the mental side of gymnastics – the 95% mental and 5% physical. It’s totally true. As you get to an older age, at 25 years old, I’ve pretty much learned everything that I need to learn in gymnastics. Now it’s, can I mentally push through the daily grind? Can I push through the small injuries and the aches and pains?”

NeedsYearsAgePainSidesBelieverInjuryAcheGrindGymnasticsTrue BelieverAches And PainsDaily Grind
Author:Jonathan Horton
Create image

“A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.”

RealSelfRealityConsciousnessAtheismWallConsciousPositive AtheismEnvyBelieverDoctrineDishonestyMaliceTrue BelieverReal SelfPettiness
Book:The Passionate State of Mind
Create image

“Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.”

IfsWayFirstsFacesOrderBeliefDoubtEvidenceBlindContraryBelieverBeing TruePreservesStaringVirusesTrue Believer
Book:Acts of Faith
Create image

“The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission;he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.”

MindSelfRealityDisciplineProtectIllusionConscienceBelieverObedienceIronCarrieRegimesSelf DisciplineSubmissionCurtainsSkullsTrue BelieverIntrusionIron Curtain
Author:Arthur Koestler
Create image

“Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.”

MindFactsMovementMassResponseStartingTechniqueBelieverConversionCharacteristicsFrustrationPeculiarFrustratedIndigenousAccordTrue BelieverStarting OutFixationProselytizing
Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
Create image