True Believer Quotes - Page 3

• Todo el mundo es un verdadero creyente. Todo el mundo tiene una pequeña pepita de la que está convencido que es lo contrario de la pepita del otro lado. Y están convencidos de que es un hecho.

  Jane Haddam

  Opuestos, Nuggets, Littles

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• Es probable que un hombre se ocupe de sus propios asuntos cuando merece la pena ocuparse de ellos.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hombres, Mente, Fisgón

  Eric Hoffer (2011). "El verdadero creyente: Reflexiones sobre la naturaleza de los movimientos de masas", p.14, Harper Collins.

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• El verdadero creyente es recompensado en todo, incluso en la aflicción.

  Abu Bakr

  Affliction, Believer, Caliphs

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• De alguna manera prevalece la impresión de que el verdadero creyente, en particular el individuo religioso, es una persona humilde. La verdad es que la entrega y la humillación del yo engendran orgullo y arrogancia.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religioso, Humilde, Orgullo

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). "EL VERDADERO CREYENTE"

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• Es probable que un hombre se ocupe de sus propios asuntos cuando merece la pena ocuparse de ellos. Cuando no lo es, se distrae de sus propios asuntos sin sentido ocupándose de los de los demás.

  Eric Hoffer

  Guerra, Hombres, Gente

  Eric Hoffer (2011). "El verdadero creyente: Reflexiones sobre la naturaleza de los movimientos de masas", p.14, Harper Collins.

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• The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Atheist, Opposites

  Eric Hoffer (1982). "Entre el diablo y el dragón: Los mejores ensayos y aforismos de Eric Hoffer", HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Vanity

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

  Rey Hussein I

  Struggle, Here I Am, Departure

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• Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
  They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.

  Seth Godin

  Delight, Skeptic, Believer

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• Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Party, Faithful

  Eric Hoffer (1980). "El verdadero creyente"

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• Ningún verdadero creyente podría ser intolerante o perseguidor. Si yo fuera magistrado y la ley previera la pena de muerte contra los ateos, empezaría por enviar a la hoguera a quien denunciara a otro.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

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• The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Society, Technique

  Eric Hoffer (1982). "Entre el diablo y el dragón: Los mejores ensayos y aforismos de Eric Hoffer", HarperCollins Publishers

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• Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Power, Weakness

  Eric Hoffer (1996). "El estado pasional de la mente"

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• No podemos ganar a los débiles compartiendo nuestra riqueza con ellos. Sienten nuestra generosidad como una opresión.

  Eric Hoffer

  Winning, Generosity, Weakness

  Eric Hoffer (1963). "La prueba del cambio"

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• If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Stripes, Delight, Might

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• In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

  Gore Vidal

  Politician, Believer, Improvisation

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• Ninguna prueba en contra de una creencia firmemente arraigada, por buena o abundante que sea, doblegará al verdadero creyente.

  James Randi

  May, Matter, Belief

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• Coincidence is the science of the true believer.

  Chet Raymo

  Coincidence, Believer

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• The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission;he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Self, Iron

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• One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Knowing, Agnostic, Journalism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

  Mark Thomas

  Religion, Atheism, Belief

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• La realidad demuestra continuamente a los verdaderos creyentes que su dios no existe, pero han desarrollado amplios mecanismos para hacer frente a esta disonancia cognitiva.

  Mark Thomas

  Reality, Coping Mechanisms, Religion

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• There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

  Upton Sinclair

  Order, Heaven, Religion

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

  Augustus Toplady

  Church, Going To Church, Believer

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.274

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• I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.

  Charlize Theron

  Way, Should, Believer

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