As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
Gloria EstefanIf you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis WaitleyIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way (A Tale of Two Cities)
Charles DickensRealizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
Maxwell MaltzCredulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Tryon EdwardsCalvinism is the belief that there are three Gods.
Thomas PainePatriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Jesse VenturaThe radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart
Walter J LippmannA key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form.
Will EisnerBeliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Anthony RobbinsFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William JamesThe new manager has given us unbelivable belief.
Paul MersonPerhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
Thomas NagelNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore De BalzacOur belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
[Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge]
Karl PopperA belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Vannevar BushBooks are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther ForbesI have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Septima ClarkThere are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy GiulianiMy great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D H LawrenceThe whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
John OsborneA belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
David HockneyFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Henry L MenckenNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy BenthamBelief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas PaineQuotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy DebordNo one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Ann LandersContrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter UstinovThe more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund FreudIt is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel TrillingWhy should I 'respect' belief systems that I do not share? I would not be expected to respect the beliefs of flat earthers or those of the people who believed that the Hale-Bopp comet was a recycling facility for dead Californians, and killed themselves in order to join it.
Simon BlackburnThe process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Michael PolanyiThey were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise ErdrichFaith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence
Richard DawkinsOut of disbelief in God we have impudently assumed that all of life is now subject to our own will. [Diagnosing the problems that have caused all the social ills of the modern age]
Leslie FarberWe are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Walter LippmannBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William JamesA man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock EllisWe must be open to all who share our values and our beliefs - young, old, black, white, straight, gay. Under my leadership there will be no more grumpy Conservatism.
David DavisWhat we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Anthony RobbinsHe does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
Sigmund FreudHistory is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.
Francis GrimkeFaith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D Elton TruebloodSickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind
Mary Baker EddyI enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs.
Edward FurlongBelief in God is a very personal thing and for a lot of people, I think, their spiritual side and nature evolves and changes during the course of their lives.
Jeff GordonCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawNo man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry MillerThere is a place in this world for satire but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs begins.
Isaac HayesThere's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A Clark
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