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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- Fuller, R. Buckminster

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
- Bristol, Claude M.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
- Wieder, Marcia

We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
- Macleish, Archibald

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
- Montapert, Alfred A.

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.
- Einstein, Albert

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason.
- Hitchens, Christopher

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.
- Vidal, Gore

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
- Bierce, Ambrose

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
- James, William

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
- Trueblood, Elton

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
- Oates, Joyce Carol

The happy ending is our national belief.
- Mccarthy, Mary

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
- Debord, Guy

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
- Bagehot, Walter

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
- Cousins, Norman

All the great ages have been ages of belief.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Belief gets in the way of learning.
- Heinlein, Robert

Belief creates the actual fact.
- James, William

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- Paine, Thomas

All beliefs are bald ideas.
- Picabia, Francis

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
- Rushdie, Salman

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
- Dietrich, Marlene

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
- Ellis, Havelock

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
- Wolfe, Thomas

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
- Abbey, Edward

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
- Butler, Samuel

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
- Carlyle, Thomas

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
- Eliot, George

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
- Fuller, Thomas

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
- Kafka, Franz

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
- Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
- Edwards, Tryon

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
- Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
- Bierce, Ambrose

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
- Froude, James A.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties !
- Arnold, Matthew

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.
- Brown, Les

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
- Hodges, H. A.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- James, William

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
- Weil, Simone

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
- Spence, Gerry

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
- Barron, Frank

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- Mencken, H. L.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
- Twain, Mark

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
- Gifford, Frank

When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet.
- Sterne, Laurence

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
- Schnitzler, Arthur

Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
- Dowling, Colette

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
- Bennett, Arnold

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
- Anthony, Dr. Robert

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
- Dickinson, Emily

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
- Mill, John Stuart

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
- Swift, Jonathan

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
- Sinetar, Marsha

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- Bierce, Ambrose

One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Russell, Bertrand

Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.
- Harnack, Adolph

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
- Miller, Henry

The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.
- Sky, Michael

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
- Crowley, Aleister

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- Orwell, George