Quotes on belief

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Author: Henry Adams

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Author: Muhammad Ali

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 the butterfly.

Author: Richard Bach

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

Author: Spencer Bachus

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

Author: James Bent

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Author: Jose Bergamin

We're still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.

Author: Dennis Bergkamp

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Author: Allan Bloom

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

Author: Allan Bloom

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

Author: Lindy Boggs

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Author: Charlotte Bronte

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

Author: Louise Brown

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Author: Leo Burnett

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Author: Vannevar Bush

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Author: Samuel Butler

Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.

Author: Jim Capaldi

I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.

Author: Steve Case

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Author: Deepak Chopra

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Author: Septima Clark

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Author: William Clifford

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

Author: William Clifford

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

Author: William Clifford

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

Author: William Clifford

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Author: Jeremy Collier

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Author: Anthony Collins

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Author: Aleister Crowley

Do not aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Author: David Frost

Christopher 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.

Author: Patti Davis

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

Author: John Doolittle

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Author: Mary Eddy

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Author: Tryon Edwards

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Author: Jenna Elfman

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Author: George Eliot

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

Author: Jacques Ellul

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Author: E. Forster

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Author: Sigmund Freud

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Author: Sigmund Freud

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Author: Milton Friedman

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Author: Milton Friedman

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Author: James Froude

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

Author: Thomas Fuller

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

Author: Albert Gallatin

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.

Author: Elton Gallegly

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

Author: Joseph Glanvill

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Author: Johann Goethe

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Author: Johann Goethe

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

Author: Stanislav Grof

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

Author: Robert Grosseteste

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

Author: Johann Hamann

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Author: Barbara Harrison

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Author: Lillian Hellman

Success is not defined by the number of followers you have, but by the impact you make on those who truly believe in you.

Author: Maya Angelou

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Author: David Hockney

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

Author: John Howard

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Author: David Hume

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

Author: King Hussein

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Author: Robert Ingersoll

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

Author: Tony Iommi

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

Author: Steve Irwin

It 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.

Author: Janet Jackson

Belief creates the actual fact.

Author: William James

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Author: Steve Jobs

There is no greater level and form of belief than believing in yourself.

Author: Darren Johnson

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Author: Samuel Johnson

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

Author: Barbara Jordan

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

Author: Rosabeth Kanter

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

Author: Leon Kass

The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded.

Author: Eli Khamarov

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

Author: Stephen Kleene

The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

Author: C. Koop

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Author: Emile Lahud

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Author: Ann Landers

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Author: Christian Lange

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Author: Christopher Lasch

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.

Author: Sugar Leonard

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Author: Walter Lippmann

Success is not defined by the end result, but by the enduring faith in the journey.

Author: Maya Angelou

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

Author: Audre Lorde

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Author: Archibald MacLeish

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Author: Jena Malone

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

Author: Albert Maltz

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Author: Peter Marshall

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Author: Brian May

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

Author: Brian May

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Author: Bryant McGill

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

Author: John Mill

No 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.

Author: Henry Miller

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Author: Marianne Moore

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Author: Kent Nerburn

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

Author: Lyn Nofziger

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Author: Peggy Noonan

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Author: Joyce Oates

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

Author: Charles Olson

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Author: Ovid

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Author: Tom Palmer

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Author: Norman Peale

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Author: Charles Peirce

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

Author: James Penney

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

Author: Rick Perry

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

Author: David Plouffe

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Author: Michael Polanyi

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

Author: James Rainwater

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.

Author: Charles Richter

I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.

Author: James Rogers

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

Author: Charles Rosen

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

Author: Ronald Ross

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

Author: Mark Ruffalo

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

Author: Mark Ruffalo

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Author: Bertrand Russell

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Author: Bertrand Russell

Against 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.

Author: Bertrand Russell

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Author: Fred Saberhagen

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Author: Andrei Sakharov

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

Author: Jessica Savitch

We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.

Author: Luke Scott

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Author: John Searle

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Author: Lucius Seneca

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

Author: Yahoo Serious

Need is not quite belief.

Author: Anne Sexton

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Author: Anna Shaw

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

Author: Chen Shui-bian

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.

Author: Anne Smedley

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Author: Lillian Smith

In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.

Author: John Strachan

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Author: Jonathan Swift

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

Author: David Sylvian

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

Author: Major Taylor

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

Author: Robert Teeter

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Author: Lily Tomlin

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Author: G. Trudeau

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

Author: Tina Turner

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.

Author: Denis Waitley

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Author: Paul Watzlawick

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Author: Evelyn Waugh

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

Author: Thomas Wentworth

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Author: Connie Willis

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

Author: Chauncey Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Author: Frank Wright

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

Author: John Zimmerman

Believe in your capabilities, even when the world doubts you, for the power lies within your own belief.

Author: Angela Davis

Embrace the magic within you, for it holds the power to create infinite possibilities.

Author: Sofia Alvarez

Where there is faith, there is no room for fear.

Author: Maya Angelou

The only limits that exist are the ones we choose to believe in.

Author: Sara Blakely

Don't be afraid to stand out and shine brightly, for the stars that are meant to align with you will find their way to your light.

Author: Sarah Williams

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.

Author: Rachel Hollis