Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

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

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Need is not quite belief.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

I have absolute faith in the correctness of my course.

If you didn't want to believe in me, that's OK, because I'll make a believer out of you.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

I don't believe. I know.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.