Belief Quotes - Page 6

• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

  Georges Rouault

  Difficult, Believer, Revolt

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• As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

  Michel de Certeau

  Believe, Firsts, Etc

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• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Dark, Personality, Environmental

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• He who knows most believes the least.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Believe, Knows

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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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• It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam

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• In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Truth

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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• Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Men, Differences

  "Literary Essays, vol. II". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1870-1890.

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• I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

  Immanuel Kant

  Order, Rooms, Remove

  Immanuel Kant (1905). “Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, in Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication”

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• Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

  Frances Wright

  Religion, Unseen, May

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.73

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• And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Opposites, Holding On

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• An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

  Don Marquis

  Believe, Responsibility, Science

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• Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.

  Larry Flynt

  Strong, Determination, Voice

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• If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

  Hans Eysenck

  Ifs

  Hans Jürgen Eysenck (1997). “Repel With a Cause: The Autobiography of Hans Eysenck”, p.119, Transaction Publishers

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  Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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• 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.

  Denis Waitley

  Positive, Confidence, Buddhist

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• There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Faith, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1971). “the Stars in their Courses”

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• The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  God, Believe, Self

  Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.144, Shambhala Publications

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Believe, Animal

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self Esteem, Believe, Yoga

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• Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Faith, Christian

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust.

  Kari Jobe

  Trust, God, Faith

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• Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Fun, Business, Men

  Attributed by Michael Albert, "Moving Forward: Programme for a Participatory Economy", (p. 128), 2000.

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