I 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 FurlongThere 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 GiulianiThe process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Michael PolanyiQuotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy DebordThere is such a belief in the squad that we could really do something. [On Euro 2004]
Frank LampardBeliefs 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 RobbinsNo 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 MillerDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom RobbinsFaith 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 DawkinsMy belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve IrwinI am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.
Ruth KellyIf 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 is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel TrillingAnd 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 AsimovWe 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 SaganFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Henry L MenckenMoralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry MillerOur 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 BackusI have always had belief in my ability but Shane Warne has helped me with my thinking too
Chris TremlettPerhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
Thomas NagelThe existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.
Franz BoasBeliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
Peter UstinovAlong with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.
Larry FlyntI have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Septima ClarkCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillThe equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold ToynbeeA wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
David HumeWe are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Walter LippmannEveryone 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 RussellA man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock EllisIt 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 JamesOut 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 FarberThere 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 HayesI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand RussellNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy BenthamKeep 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 DeversFaith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceTechnically he is very, very sound. Everyone talks about mental strength, but you need belief in your own game to be mentally sound
Andrew CastleHistory is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.
Francis GrimkeFaith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active
Edith HamiltonIt is important that we have belief in God at all times of our life, and not just when we feel we have something to request of him or be particularly thankful for.
Benny HinnBelief 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 GordonHis great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of Muhammad Ali [on Brian Clough]
John McGovernAlas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleBooks are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther ForbesWhen 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 EndeThere's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A ClarkBelieve that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria RilkeIt were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch
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