Terry Pratchett Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Encouraging, Beautiful

• No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Terry Pratchett (1996). “Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld”, Harper Prism

• Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Belief, Needed

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7)”, p.216, Random House

• Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, People, Purpose

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.28, Harper Collins

• IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Expression, Knowing

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

• Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Horse, People

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.365, Random House

• Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nymphs, People, Enemy

• Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

  Terry Pratchett

  Belief, Opinion, Manners

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.87, Random House

• Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Moving, Thinking

• Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Example, Taught

  "I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist, says fantasy author Terry Pratchett" by Terry Pratchett, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 21, 2008.

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