Useful Belief Quotes

#1. A comprehensive utopia may be out of reach, but the effort to realise it shapes the world for the better all the same. The belief may not be true, but it is useful. Belief makes the world.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

Roger Scruton

#3. A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#4. If you want to deal with me, email is the way you do it. Working via email means that everything I do is searchable. I can go back and check out discussion threads from more than 15 years ago.

Mark Cuban

#5. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Faythe, it's me!"
"I know who the hell you are. Why do you think I kicked you?

Rachel Vincent

#7. Maybe i'm exacly where i should be after all.

Tammara Webber

#8. Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see ... [it] becomes unnecessary.

Steve Hagen

#10. Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic

Graham Nash

#11. How she realized at last that not even love
could justify this, that no affection could, not ever.
Still, in the glass, she sees her own mouth,
opening and closing and silent as a fish.

Zoe Brigley

#12. It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

Reid Hoffman

#13. He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

Dante Alighieri

#14. Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

Paulo Coelho

#15. ...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

Joe Abercrombie

#16. Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Stephen Colbert

#17. It's funny how really smart people have the most unusual holes in their worldview and perception.

Nalini Singh

#18. By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

Bernard Williams

#20. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Heather Simmons

#21. It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

Bertrand Russell

#22. I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.

Carol Bellamy

#23. A belief is not true because it is useful

Henri Frederic Amiel

#24. My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

Leon Kass

#25. Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

Cormac McCarthy

#26. I think anybody has, regardless of your gender, we all have equal value if you have value to bring and value to provide, you just have to be willing to use your voice.

Stephanie McMahon

#27. I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.

Humphry Davy

#28. The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

John Mortimer