“You don't have to become a disbeliever to remain a believer”

“Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason

“Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

“Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, "Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about." If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it.”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian

“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.”

Charlie Chaplin book My Autobiography

“I don't believe in anything you have to believe in.”

Fran Lebowitz (1950) author and public speaker from the United States