Belief Quotes
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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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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
Freya Stark
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We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
Bill Willingham
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In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.
William Peter Blatty
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Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.
William James
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Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl Love means suffering-those who love drag a chain with them. To her it was not a belief but a certainty Trifling incident gains importance when undue emphasis is laid.
Georg Ebers
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The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.
Emile Coue
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps
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In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.
Virginia Woolf
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It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
Napoleon Hill
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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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Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.
Shawn Achor
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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.
Adolf Hitler
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Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.
Walter Kasper
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The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
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Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
Adolf Hitler
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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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Technically he hasn't violated any laws by purchasing a tag. He was under the belief that he would be done and that he would be able to hunt this bison.
Chris Cavanaugh
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Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!
Alexandre Dumas
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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