Belief Quotes

• Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Mar 19, 2012

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• Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.

  Melanie Klein

  Children, Reality, Years

  "Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945". Book by Melanie Klein, p. 173, 2002.

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• You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Believe

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  Keep 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.

  Gail Devers

  Motivational, Faith, Sports

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Truth, Religion

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

  William James

  Fear, Past, History

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• The abdication of Belief
  Makes the Behavior small-
  Better an ignis fatuus
  Than no illume at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Abdication, Behavior

  c.1882 Complete Poems, no.1551 (first published 1945).

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• Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

  Thomas Szasz

  Believe, Doe, Share

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• An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

  Robert Breault

  Shoes, Comfort, Failing

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• Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Motivational, Depression, Believe

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Powerful, Writing, Creativity

  "The Summing Up" by W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran & Co., (p. 164), 1938.

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• Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Believe, Elude Us, Growth

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

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Light, Guillotine

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• Man is what he believes.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.377, e-artnow

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• A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Mean, Attachment

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  Edith Hamilton

  Inspirational, Faith, Passive

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• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fear, Men, Imagination

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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• Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

  Antonio Porchia

  Believe, Littles, Sickness

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Believe, Divorce

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

  Lillian Hellman

  Moral, Responsible, Believer

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• It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Women, Gossip, Pieces

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Needs, Opinion

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• Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Laughter, Roof Over Your Head

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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