Quotes about belief

"You must see first before you can believe."

Holliwell, Raymond on belief   

"Loving is half of believing."

Hugo, Victor on belief
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"Belief creates the actual fact."

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

James, William on belief
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

James, William on belief
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"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. on belief
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"As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more."

Jenkins, David on belief   

"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."

Johnson, Samuel on belief
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"The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it."

Jung, Carl on belief   

"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light."

Kafka, Franz on belief   

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

Kazantzakis, Nikos on belief
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"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."

Kierkegaard, Søren on belief
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"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

Korda, Michael on belief   

"There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."

Kronenberger, Louis on belief   

"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."

La Fontaine, Jean De on belief   

"If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there."

Lawrence, Martin on belief   

"First we have to believe, and then we believe."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on belief   

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on belief   

"With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on belief   

"Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind."

Lilly, John C. on belief   

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."

Lilly, John C. on belief   

"If you think you can do it, you can."

Lindros, Eric on belief   

"We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists."

Lippmann, Walter on belief
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"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."

Lippmann, Walter on belief   

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

Luther, Martin on belief
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"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

Madson, Andrew V. on belief
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"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."

March, General Peyton C. on belief   

"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."

Marshall, Peter on belief   

"It is easier to believe than to doubt."

Martin, Everett D. on belief   

"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."

Mcwilliams, Peter on belief   

"It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake."

Mencken, H. L. on belief
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"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."

Mill, John Stuart on belief
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"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."

Miller, Henry on belief   

"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."

Miller, Olin on belief
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"How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?"

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on belief   

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on belief
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"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. on belief   

"What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe."

Murdock, Mike on belief
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"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them."

Nizer, Louis on belief   

"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."

Ovid on belief
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