Stuart Chase Quotes

I believe words mean something. I really do.

Each project that you do is something you believe in for that moment in time.

I believe in my work and advocate for my conclusions.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Anything that I do is something that I'm passionate about and really believe in, no matter how it turns out.

What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.