Belief

Quote link. Other quotes about: something life Other quotes by George Santayana.: "The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe life living fact Other quotes by James Truslow Adams.: "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life good change Other quotes by Douglas Noel Adams.: "If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news"
Quote link. Other quotes about: prejudices old little man mind grow Other quotes by James Truslow Adams.: "Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science human religion lies Other quotes by Richard Adams.: "The 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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Margaret Atwood.: "Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man mind ideas Other quotes by Henry Bessemer.: "I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce.: "Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Robert Oxton Bolt.: "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind."
Quote link. Other quotes by F. F. Bosworth.: "Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth world evil deep Other quotes by Max Born.: "The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die soul Other quotes by George.: "Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty god never service Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr..: "You 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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost Other quotes by Maurice Chapelain.: "The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe god men man father evil soul Other quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.: "The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world understand Other quotes by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill.: "In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech making sin Other quotes by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill.: "The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power die believe god little man person Other quotes by Charles Robert Darwin.: "The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time sin single hard Other quotes by Louise Erdrich.: "They 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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger ignorance reason hate fear change making society Other quotes by G Gaia.: "The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.: "If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Bhagavad Gita.: "Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history first men need Other quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.: "The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life ideas Other quotes by Etty Hilsum.: "One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans america think world people fact Other quotes by Henry James.: "It 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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe something live people life living game fear Other quotes by Roger John.: "Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men good Other quotes by John Maynard Keynes.: "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Irving Layton.: "Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first think never sin Other quotes by Sophia Loren.: "Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve."
Quote link. Other quotes about: woman Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken.: "Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another."
Quote link. Other quotes by Peggy Noonan.: "My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little soul Other quotes by Flannery O'Connor.: "Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience america talk right believe man life religion words Other quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson.: "What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person heaven Other quotes by James Grover Thurber.: "If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
Quote link. Other quotes by D. Elton Trueblood.: "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power believe people man creative fear Other quotes by Unknown.: "What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts And doubt their beliefs... Why don't we just decide to have no doubts, And believe your beliefs Fear and worry is just the mis-use of the creative powers We originally got to dream."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe friend first people friends Other quotes by Peter Ustinov.: "Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Denis Watley.: "If 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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good love Other quotes by Martha Beck.: "The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen these qualities in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die soul Other quotes by George Carlin.: "Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america fact Other quotes by John Gunther.: "Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.: "With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by James R. Lowell.: "Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power lies Other quotes by Barbara Mikkelson.: "The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience."
Quote link. Other quotes by Phaedrus.: "There is danger in both belief and unbelief."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Kent Nerburn.: "Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother man mankind Other quotes by Adam Clayton Jr. Powell.: "Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ live life love Other quotes by Real Live Preacher.: "God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Gerry Spence.: "I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
Quote link. Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright.: "The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life person Other quotes by James Allen.: "The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man beauty born Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find right truth soul Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."
Quote link. Other quotes by Socrates.: "My belief is that to have no wants is divine."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class truth life Other quotes by M Scott Peck.: "Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness believe human lies Other quotes by Louis D. Brandeis.: "America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people religion Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people religion Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe live Other quotes by Thomas Fuller.: "He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life living fact Other quotes by William James.: "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
Quote link. Other quotes about: prejudices old little man mind grow Other quotes by William James.: "Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success Other quotes by William James.: "Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right person Other quotes by Ann Landers.: "No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person Other quotes by John Stuart Mill.: "One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope nothing time good evil light wisdom heaven Other quotes by Charles Dickens.: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope nothing time light wisdom heaven Other quotes by Charles Dickens.: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength Other quotes by Anthony Walton.: "America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art friend religion friends walk rule Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.: "My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power mind Other quotes by George Orwell.: "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america men Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men evil alone Other quotes by Joseph Conrad.: "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people important look Other quotes by Andr Dubus.: "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance world Other quotes by Richard Bach.: "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce.: "Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce.: "Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend friends Other quotes by Honore' de Balzac.: "Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by Thomas Wolfe.: "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work believe world Other quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke.: "Do continue to believe that with your feeling 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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Henri Frdric Amiel.: "A belief is not true because it is useful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power live think little man life living good need making deep rich Other quotes by Henry Miller.: "A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Sigmund Freud.: "The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."
Quote link. Other quotes by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.: "Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power grow young Other quotes by Ursula K. LeGuin.: "Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong die never Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work important Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe world need Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mankind fact Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad believe something good Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth think life change Other quotes by Robert Frost.: "Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth something nothing life Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world value ideas Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated."
Quote link. Other quotes about: federal right government rest Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights."
Quote link. Other quotes about: beauty soul Other quotes by Fran Lebowitz.: "The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive-you are leaking."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power grow young Other quotes by W. Somerset Maugham.: "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need fear Other quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt.: "First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

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