Belief Quotes
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
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Your persistence is your belief in yourself.
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But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.
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I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process.
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Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor.
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Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.
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Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
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All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them
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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.
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Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
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It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
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I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
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The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.
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When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
