A 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 BushFaith 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 DawkinsFaith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D Elton TruebloodOnce you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Walter LippmannHistory is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.
Francis GrimkePatriotism 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 VenturaA wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
David HumeThere 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 GiulianiMen 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 GardnerOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
Bertrand RussellEvery 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
MontaigneBeliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
Peter UstinovI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand RussellThere is such a belief in the squad that we could really do something. [On Euro 2004]
Frank LampardUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton FriedmanBelief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas PaineBelief 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 GordonKeep 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 may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Henry L MenckenThink 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 SaganI 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 FurlongMy belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve IrwinThe equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold ToynbeeLiterary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Robertson DaviesIt 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 JamesA man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Henry EllisMy 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 LawrenceIf 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 WaitleyThe new manager has given us unbelivable belief.
Paul MersonBeliefs 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 RobbinsThere 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 HayesIt 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 JacksonThere's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A ClarkRealizing 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 EdwardsGrieve 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 MaclarenNo 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 MillerIf I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James ThurberMoralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry MillerA 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 RortyAlas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleBe not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
James Truslow AdamsThey 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 ErdrichIn the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
Walter J LippmannFrisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George CarlinDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom RobbinsWhat 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 RobbinsPerhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
Thomas NagelChristopher 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 DavisCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
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