““I used to believe a lot of things. That doesn’t make them true,” Durzo said.”

“And it doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.”

“Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.”

“If you believe, it doesn’t have to be true.”

““Do you believe that?” I asked.
“It doesn’t matter whether I believe it or not,” Redhouse said.”

“When people said to me, ‘I should like to be a member of the City Temple, what must I believe?’ I used to say, ‘Only those things which appear to you to be true.”

“I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.”

“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

“One can be a true believer in anything: psychic ability, Christianity or, as Bertrand Russell classically suggested (with irony), in the fact there is a teapot orbiting the earth. I could believe any of those things with total conviction. But my conviction doesn't make them true. Indeed, it is something of an insult to the very truth I might hold dear to say that something is true just because I believe it is.”

“Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.”