Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can’t all be right. Better make certain that you’ve got something to be sincere about and with.

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

You have to be careful what you think you 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.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

It's not "wishful" thinking.

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

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

Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!

There’s no point in believing in things that exist.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.