Belief Quotes And Sayings

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“The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.”
– Max Born

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
– Michael Korda

“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
– Milton Friedman 

“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
– Muhammad Ali 

“Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.”
– Nikolai Gogol

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
– Norman Vincent Peale 

“Beliefs must be lived in for a good while, before they accommodate themselves to the soul’s wants, and wear loose enough to be comfortable.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.  You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“This is how humans are:  we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.”
– Orson Scott Card

“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.”
– Oscar Wilde

“More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.”
– P. T. Barnum

“Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke 

“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
– Ralph Hodgson

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
– Ray Bradbury

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.”
– Richard Bach 

“All religious beliefs seem weird to those not brought up in them.”
– Richard Dawkins

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
– Richard Dawkins 

“Belief is the death of intelligence.”
– Robert Anton Wilson 

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events … it is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.”
– Robert F Kennedy

“My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
– Robert Ingersoll

“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.”
– Robert Oxton Bolt

“As a man believes, so he will act.”
– Sam Harris

“It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.”
– Sam Harris

“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”
– Samuel Butler

“It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.”
– Samuel R. Delany

“Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.”
– Seneca

“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”
– Steve Jobs 

“I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.”
– Steve Pavlina

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