Belief Quotes - Page 18

• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Believe, Fidgeting

  Voice of America broadcast, November 11, 1951.

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Beautiful, Attitude

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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• You can go as far as your mind lets you.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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• Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

  Jean Vanier

  Ignorance, People, Envy

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.51, Paulist Press

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• Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honesty, Fear, Independent

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (1934). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude”

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

  Walter Lippmann

  World, Captives

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• Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

  Darren Johnson

  Helping, Behavior, Habit

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• Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Atheist, Imagination

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

  Theodor Adorno

  Real, One Day, Deliverance

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• Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

  Ben Affleck

  People, Political, Opinion

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

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• 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.

  Kirstie Alley

  Spiritual, Matter, Sides

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• Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Thinking, Bridges, People

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• 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.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Happiness, Lying, America

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• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

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• Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Excellent, Conviction, Worthless

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• The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

  Fidel Castro

  College, Revolutionary, Share

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

  James Dean

  Trust, Two, Consideration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

  Guy Debord

  Ignorance, Periods, Quotations

  Panegyric pt. 1 (1989)

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• The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Doe, Genuine

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Atheism, Superstitions, Habit

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Believe, Painter

  "Marcel Duchamp: a riotous A-Z of his secret life" by Thomas Girst, www.theguardian.com. April 07, 2014.

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• Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

  Abba Eban

  Believe, People, Individual

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• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Looks, Caves

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.108, Penguin

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• 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.

  Janet Jackson

  Special, Needs, Worst

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