Belief Quotes
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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.
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If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
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If I'm in a city I haven't been in before, I believe if I go into a church and ask a favor, it will be granted. It's part of my belief, and that's what I do.
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Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.
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Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
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I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
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We are a nation based on Christian principles and ideals, and those are the things that guarantee our liberties...when you begin to restrict our belief and our attestation to our Christian values you begin to restrict our liberties.
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We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
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When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God's command to always rejoice.
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The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.
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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.
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Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!
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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.
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You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.
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Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
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Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
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Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
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The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.
