Jonathan Swift Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Philosophy, Believe, Fall

• It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Work, Lying, Done

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.458

• The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Overcoming, Belief

• Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Men, Liberty

  Jonathan Swift (1801). “The Works ...”, p.45

• If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

  Jonathan Swift

  Belief, Ifs

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