Belief Quotes
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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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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
Plato
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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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When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.
Emile Coue
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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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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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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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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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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Good times weaken belief.
James Cook
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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She’d once asked a black psychologist whose house she’d cleaned on Long Island about black people’s attachment to clothes. She’d told Blanche it probably was partly due to African peoples’ belief in body adornment in a spiritual way, and partly because, consciously or unconsciously, black people in America hoped clothes would make them acceptable to people who hated them no matter what they wore.
BarbaraNeely
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I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.
Jack Layton