I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.
Albert GallatinNo 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 MillerA key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form.
Will EisnerA wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
David HumeA 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 RortyDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom RobbinsThe great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
G H LewesWe 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 DavisI have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Septima ClarkA 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 HuxleyWhy 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 BlackburnFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Henry L MenckenAnd above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac AsimovIt is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.
Janet JacksonThe constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIn the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
Walter J LippmannCulture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Tom WolfeIf 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 WaitleyAlas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleKeep 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 DeversWe 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 SaganCredulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Tryon EdwardsOut 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 FarberWhen 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 CampbellA belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
David HockneyWe are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Walter LippmannFaith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D Elton TruebloodBelief 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 GordonI 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 DawkinsThe 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 LippmannHistory is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.
Francis GrimkeNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy BenthamNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore De BalzacPatriotism 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 VenturaEveryone should be able to live their lives free to choose their own belief system, who they wish to love, whether they be black or white, male or female, dog or cat or horse, without being criticized for their choice
Alannah MylesAgainst 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 RussellCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawQuotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy DebordCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand RussellThink of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl SaganOur 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 Backus'It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds wall; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exist'.
Friedrich NietzscheA good example from the biological world of complex changes appearing to be simple is the belief in spontaneous generation.
Michael BeheHe does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
Sigmund FreudThe 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 OsborneMen 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 GardnerUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton FriedmanThere 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 Hayes Pick another category
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