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• I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

  Graham Greene

  Disease, Caught, Fallen

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• 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.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Confidence, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 23, 2015

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Fun, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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

  William Bernbach

  Mind, Marketing, Desire

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• The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Men, Unhappy

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

  Lin Yutang

  Believe, Religion, Way

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

  Dean Koontz

  Depth, Embrace, Greater

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.462, Bantam

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• A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

  James Allen

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, A Man Thinketh

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• The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Children, Lying, Believe

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

  Marcel Proust

  Facts, Spheres, Penetrate

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.219, Modern Library

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• But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Information, Action, Individual

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• All the great ages have been ages of belief.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Has Beens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.430, Рипол Классик

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• A belief may be larger than a fact.

  Vannevar Bush

  May, Facts

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, (pp. 28-29), 1967.

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• 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.

  Lindy Boggs

  Blessed, Privilege, Louisiana

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• The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

  Stanislav Grof

  Impact, World, Ethical

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• The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

  William James

  Order, Space, Biographies

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.50, William James

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• As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do not speak. We are left to believe. Fools, children. Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.

  Don DeLillo

  Children, Believe, Men

  Don DeLillo (1985). “White noise”, Viking Pr

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• This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

  Shannen Doherty

  Country, Political, Opinion

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• If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Order, Filters

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.119, Penguin

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• What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

  William James

  Believe, Community, Individual

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.311, Routledge

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

  Christopher Lasch

  Believe, Media, Addiction

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Believe, Arguing, Easier

  Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.201, Wesleyan University Press

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• Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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• The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

  George Henry Lewes

  Age, Desire, Doctrine

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind: The method of science and its application to metaphysics. The rules of philosophising. Psychological principles. The limitations of knowledge”, p.2

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• Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Light, Substitutes, Seeing

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.91, Macmillan

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