We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Walter LippmannWhen I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
Neve CampbellWe 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 DavisIt is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel TrillingSickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind
Mary Baker EddyIf I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James ThurberCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawA man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock EllisCalvinism is the belief that there are three Gods.
Thomas PaineNo one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Ann LandersTechnically he is very, very sound. Everyone talks about mental strength, but you need belief in your own game to be mentally sound
Andrew CastleMy 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 LawrenceThey 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 ErdrichThe 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 LippmannIf 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 WaitleyCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillIt is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires
Walter LandorA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.
Aldous HuxleyThere 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 GiulianiI have always had belief in my ability but Shane Warne has helped me with my thinking too
Chris TremlettFaith 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 DawkinsA 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 BushAgainst my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand RussellFaith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active
Edith HamiltonCulture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Tom WolfeQuotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy DebordAlong with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.
Larry FlyntEvery one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
MontaigneIt is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
Henry JamesThe more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund FreudMy belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve IrwinKeep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. [On how to be a successful athlete]
Gail DeversThere's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A ClarkMen of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John GardnerAlas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleMoralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry MillerWhen it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
Michael EndeNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore De BalzacYou can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy CarterBelief 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 GordonCredulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Tryon EdwardsA lot of people now find belief in God immature, and eventually a lot of people may find realism immature.
[The Philosophers' Magazine, Autumn 1999]
Richard RortyWe are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
Carl SaganA good example from the biological world of complex changes appearing to be simple is the belief in spontaneous generation.
Michael BeheThe process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Michael PolanyiI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand RussellOur thirty year old belief that there is only one kind of computer is the basis for our belief that there is only one kind of programming language.
John BackusDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom RobbinsThe patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.
Richard DawkinsThere is a place in this world for satire but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs begins.
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