One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
Bertrand RussellIt 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.
PlutarchAlong with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.
Larry FlyntIt is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires
Walter LandorThere 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 GiulianiA key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form.
Will EisnerBooks are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther ForbesOur 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 BackusOnce you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Walter LippmannBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William JamesChristopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.
Patti DavisKeep 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 DeversWhen 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 CampbellEvery 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
MontaigneRealizing 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 MaltzIf 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 WaitleyA 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 BushBelieve 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 RilkeBeliefs 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 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 DawkinsBe not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
James Truslow AdamsWhy 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 BlackburnA 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 RortyFrisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George CarlinCredulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Tryon EdwardsWe are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Walter LippmannHe does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
Sigmund FreudA wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
David HumeThe more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund FreudIt 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 JamesWhat distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart MillFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Henry L MenckenIt is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel TrillingWe 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 DavisGrieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountainside with its thick-ribbed ice
Alexander MaclarenThe Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent PealeThere's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A ClarkOur 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 PopperThe 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 LewesFaith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceAgainst 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 RussellYou 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 CarterThe new manager has given us unbelivable belief.
Paul MersonHis great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of Muhammad Ali [on Brian Clough]
John McGovernAnd 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 AsimovPerhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
Thomas NagelTechnically he is very, very sound. Everyone talks about mental strength, but you need belief in your own game to be mentally sound
Andrew CastleAt every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
Howard DeanMy 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 LawrenceOne person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
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