This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
~By Annie Dillard ~
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
~By Henry James ~
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
~By Joey Skaggs ~
I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
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.
~By Joseph Glanvill ~
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.
~By Ronald Ross ~
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
~By Shannen Doherty ~
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.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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.
~By Janet Jackson ~
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.
~By Luke Scott ~
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.
~By Isabella I ~
Belief gets in the way of learning.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
~By Jack Bowman ~
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
~By John Tuley ~
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
~By Robert Cecil ~
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
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.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
~By Henry Ellis ~
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
~By John Webster ~
We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure.
~By Charles Bronson ~
Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.
~By Rick Perry ~
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
~By Mason Cooley ~
It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.
~By John Howard ~
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
~By Carl Levin ~
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
~By John Dewey ~
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
~By David Hume ~
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
~By George Orwell ~
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
~By Winthrop Rockefeller ~
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
~By Septima Clark ~
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
~By Caryl Chessman ~
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
~By Joseph Bologna ~
The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
~By James Theodore Bent ~
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.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
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.
~By Richard Adams ~
Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
~By Dan Brown ~
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
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.
~By Stephen Cole Kleene ~
When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
~By James Martineau ~
Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.
~By Sugar Ray Leonard ~
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
~By John Doolittle ~
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
~By Ellen G. White ~
My 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.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~By William James ~
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
~By Pete Seeger ~
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
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.
~By Milton Friedman ~
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.
~By Kathy Najimy ~
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.
~By Joy Page ~
Faith 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.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
~By Edward de Bono ~
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.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.
~By Roland Allen ~
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.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
~By George Carlin ~
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
~By David Wilkerson ~
If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
~By Ahmet Necdet Sezner ~
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.
~By Charles Rosen ~
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.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
~By Marian Anderson ~
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
~By Asa Gray ~
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
~By Steve Irwin ~
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
~By David Hockney ~
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
~By Samuel Butler ~
If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?
~By Bob Riley ~
I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.
~By Mary Steenburgen ~
The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
~By Carl Jung ~
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
You can not 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.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
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