Friday, 25 November 2011

Beliefs / Believes - Quotes

A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind. - Elly Roselle

A belief is not true because it is useful. - Henri Frederic Amiel

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. - Jose Bergamin

A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence. - David Hume

As a man believes, so he will act. - Sam Harris

At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. - Lao Tzu

Belief gets in the way of learning. - Robert Heinlein

Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. - Denis Waitley

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. - J. M. Coetzee

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws. - James Siegel

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. - Anthony Robbins

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution. - Richard Dawkins

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles F. Kettering

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

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. - Christian D. Larson

Believe in yourself and you will not only take off, you will fly. - Unknown

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

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution. - David Joseph Schwartz

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. - William Penn

Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see. - Unknown

Believe that your life is worth living and your beliefs will help create the fact. - Unknown

Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous - Abraham Lincoln

Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe. - Frank Herbert

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Do not believe hastily. - Ovid

Do not ever quit believing in yourself. As long as you believe you can, you will have reason for trying. - Unknown

Don’t believe everything you hear. - Aesop

Don’t believe everything you hear. There are always three sides to a story – yours, theirs, and the truth. - UnknownEvery man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. - Seneca

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. - Jean de La Bruyere

Everything possible to be believ’d is an image of truth. - William Blake

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. - Richard Dawkins

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible. - Stuart Chase

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes. - Francis Bacon

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

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed. - Charles Caleb Colton

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. - Berthold Auerbach

He who believes needs no explanation. - Euripides 

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. - Leo Rosten

I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant. - Rufus

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell

If we can once believe that success is possible, success becomes possible. - Frank Chapman

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. - Alfred Montapert

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe. - Laurell K. Hamilton

If you want to know what your true beliefs are, take a look at your actions. - Robert Anthony

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

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. - Kenichi Ohmae

It is not what you believe, but why you believe it! - Unknown

It is okay to stand firm in your beliefs; just do not impose them on others who may be equally resolute in theirs. - Unknown

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. - Robert Heinlein

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe. - Gail Devers

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

It’s what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are. - Unknown

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. - Gail Devers

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. - Oscar Wilde

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ground for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he becomes. - Bhagavad Gita

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. - Mahatma Gandhi

Many people have died for their beliefs. The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe. - Christopher Paolini

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief. - Baltasar Gracian

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. - Michel Montaigne

Men freely believes that which they desire. - Caesar

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. - Julius Caesar

Men that believe only what they understand can write their creed on a postage stamp. - Austin O’Malley

Most people are too slow to believe, but once you get them going, they believe too much. - Lewis F. Korns

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. - H. L. Mencken

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. - Michel de Montaigne

Oftimes our belief, if in another, we would regard a superstition. - Lewis F. Korns

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

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture. - William James

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we will be. - Anthony Robbins

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. - Paul Valéry

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

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favour of its truth. - Bertrand Russell

The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe. - Claude Bernard

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. - Lillian Smith

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds. - Dean Koontz

The less you know the more you believe. - U2

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. - Roy L. Smith

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. - George Bernard Shaw

The more a man dreams, the less he believes. - H. L. Mencken

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. - H. L. Mencken

The thing you really believe in always happens. And the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand. - John Lubbock

There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs. - Anthony Robbins

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. - Isaac Asimov

There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark

They conquer who believe they can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe. - Ivan Panin

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. - Henri Poincare

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. - Louisa May Alcott

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

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions. - Sydney J. Harries

We may not respect all the beliefs of others, but we should respect their right of having them. - Validivar

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. - Gene Wolfe

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. - George Bernard Shaw

What ardently we wish, we soon believe. - Edward Young

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us. - Orison Swett Marden

What you believe will depend very much on what you are. - Noah Porter

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. - Susan L. Taylor

Whatever you do, you must remain nimble in your thinking. Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility. - Christopher Paolini

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty. - Isaac Asimov

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about. - Robert Anthony

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. - Dr. Robert Anthony

You’ve got to believe in possibilities. You’ve got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here’s the big one. Believe in yourself. - Unknown

Your belief don’t make you a better person, your behaviour does. - Unknown

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