Belief Quotes
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
Plato
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Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.
Emile Coue
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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.
William Golding
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I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.
Craig Lancaster
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I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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It’s hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you’re scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.
Edmund Bourne
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Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.
Katharina Zell
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Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway.
Karla Cheatham Mosley
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Good times weaken belief.
James Cook
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Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Francis Bacon
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Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.
Abraham Low
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Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
Douglas Jerrold
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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
William Hazlitt
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I have found that great people do have in common an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have great determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Yousuf Karsh
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The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.
Marc Benioff
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Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process.
Albert Bandura
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You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.
The Ultimate Warrior
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No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
Wallace Stegner
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali
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You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.
David O. Russell
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The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.
William James