100+ Belief Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Alana Stewart: Actress And Former Model Talks Spirituality And Staying Vibrant At 67". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

topic: Strong, Thinking, Belief, Higher Power

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

- Albert Bandura

source: "Self-efficacy: The exercise of control". Book by Albert Bandura (p. 77), February 15, 1997.

topic: Self, Doe, Belief, Efficacy, Spawn

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, Belief, Action, Efficacy, Self Efficacy

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

- Albert Camus

topic: Freedom, Thinking, Belief

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Secret, Belief, Intangible

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Real, World, Belief

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

- Albert Gallatin

topic: Country, Belief, Fund

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

- Albert Gubay

topic: Belief, Reckoning

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

- Albert Maltz

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Movement, World, Belief

Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.

- Albert Mohler

source: Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.16, Baker Books

topic: Belief, Conviction

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

- Albert Pike

topic: Religious, Belief, Masonry

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

- Alberto Moravia

topic: Belief, Spite

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

- Alberto Moravia

source: Alberto Moravia (2011). “The Woman of Rome”, p.202, Steerforth

topic: Men, Alive, Belief

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Believe, Belief, Brave New World Freedom, Brave New World Happiness, Brave New World Technology

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Giving, Belief, Dear God, Huxley

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

- Aleksandar Hemon

source: Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

topic: Sibling, Belief, Delusion

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

- Alexandra David-Neel

topic: Profound, Being Free, Belief, Free Thinkers

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

- Alexei Sayle

topic: Writing, People, Belief

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

- Alexei Sayle

topic: Party, Nuance, Belief, Belief Systems

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 Armand Montapert

topic: Believe, Foundation, Belief, Stable Life

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief

- Alfred Bester

topic: Believe, Belief, Worthy

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

- Alfred Korzybski

topic: Faith, Order, Belief

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

- Alice Englert

source: FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 28, 2016

topic: Doe, Able, Belief

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

- Alice Hegan Rice

source: Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.59, Read Books Ltd

topic: Justice, Liberty, Belief

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

source: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books

topic: Secret, Development, Belief, Eternal Youth

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

- Allan Bloom

source: "Closing of the American Mind".

topic: Belief, Illusion, Reason, Pernicious

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

- Amanda Palmer

topic: Trying, World, Belief, My Truth

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Belief, Opinion, Absurdity, Inconsistent

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Maids, Ruins, Belief

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Mind, Belief, Preference, Frame Of Mind

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Belief, Given, Earnestness

When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off.

- Amelia Bloomer

topic: Belief, Burden, Apparel

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

- Amin Maalouf

source: Amin Maalouf (1998). “Leo Africanus”, p.360, New Amsterdam Books

topic: Country, Sea, Belief

If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.

- Amy Lowell

topic: Fire, Belief, Worship

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

- Andre Malraux

topic: Superstitions, Belief, Anarchist

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

- Andrei Sakharov

source: "Andrei Sakharov/ Biographical". www.nobelprize.org.

topic: Strength, Spirit, Belief, Strength And Perseverance, Critical Spirit

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

- Andrew Solomon

topic: People, Needs, Belief, Additives

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Atheist, Belief, Born

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

- Andy Stanley

topic: Attitude, Shapes, Belief

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

- Anita Brookner

topic: Strong, Belief, Satire

I'm at my strongest when I'm able to let go, when I suspend my beliefs as well as disbeliefs, and leave myself open to all possibilities. That also seems to be when I'm able to experience the most internal clarity and synchronicities.

- Anita Moorjani

topic: Letting Go, Able, Belief, Synchronicity

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

- Ann Landers

topic: Humanity, Belief, Empirical Evidence

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

- Anna Leonowens

source: Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, p.184, Applewood Books

topic: Doctrine, May, Belief

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

- Anne Fadiman

topic: Long, Library, Belief

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Gears, Belief, Desks, Writing Life

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Rome, Cities, Belief

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

- Anthony Collins

topic: Believe, Men, Belief

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

- Anthony Storr

source: Anthony Storr (1997). “Feet Of Clay”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

topic: Numbers, People, Belief

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

- Anthony Storr

topic: World, May, Belief, Belief Systems, World Religions

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

topic: Light, Principles, Belief, Positive Thinker

When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

- Antonio Porchia

topic: Believe, Want, Belief

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

- Antonio Porchia

topic: Believe, Littles, Belief

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.

- Archibald MacLeish

source: 1976 'Now Let Us Address The Main Question: Bicentennial of What?', in the NewYork Times, 3 Jul.

topic: Liberty, Belief, Humans

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

- Aristotle

topic: Imagination, Soul, Belief

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

- Arnold Bennett

source: Arnold Bennett (2015). “The Human Machine: Human Understanding”, p.44, 谷月社

topic: Done, Belief, Sincere

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

topic: Religion, Belief, Equations

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

- Arthur Balfour

source: Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”

topic: Atmosphere, Climate, Belief

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

- Arthur C. Brooks

source: Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

topic: Data, Income, Belief, Surveys

An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.

- Arthur Helps

topic: Men, Belief, Bureaucracy

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

- Arthur Hugh Clough

topic: Statistics, Belief, Action, True Ones

The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.

- Arthur Jensen

topic: Environmental, Belief, Accepted, Human Equality

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

- Arthur Lynch

topic: Atheism, Doe, Belief, Belief In God, Anti Atheist

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

- Arthur Schnitzler

topic: Liberty, Belief, Proof, Martyred, Martyrdom

When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

- Aubrey Beardsley

source: "Under the Hill and Other Essays". Book by Aubrey Beardsley, 1904.

topic: Literature, Belief, Study

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

- August Wilson

topic: Belief, Bigger, Disbelief

A climate in which belief may flourish

- Austin Farrer

topic: Climate, May, Belief

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

- Austin Osman Spare

topic: Belief, Description, Universe

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: Thinking, West, Belief

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: Looks, Belief, Appraise

In battle, one must adhere to one's beliefs.

- Azai Nagamasa

source: "Fictional character: Nagamasa Azai". "Samurai Warriors" video game, 2004.

topic: Battle, Belief

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Honesty, Character, Belief, Honest Man

It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Military, Demand, Belief, Deterrent

Know or listen to those who know.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Motivational, Knowledge, Belief

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

- Barack Obama

topic: Religious, Mean, Belief

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Faith, Understanding, Belief, Scientific Evidence

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Believe, Belief, Music Is

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Grief, Belief, Unhappiness

Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Views, People, Belief

Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

- Barbara Kruger

topic: Doubt, Belief, Sanity

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

- Barbara Kruger

topic: Differences, Doubt, Belief

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Achievement, Belief

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

- Ben Affleck

topic: People, Political, Belief, Political Beliefs

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

- Ben Okri

topic: Belief, Situation

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

- Ben Stein

source: Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Thinking, Belief

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Believe, Half, Belief

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

- Benjamin Whichcote

topic: Belief, Old Testament, Denominations

Believe things, rather than man.

- Benjamin Whichcote

topic: Believe, Men, Belief

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Boys, Belief, Illusion, Beauticians

I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.

- Bernard Beckett

topic: World, Belief, Ability, Cant

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

- Berthold Auerbach

source: Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.412

topic: Belief, Firm

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Belief, Belief Systems

All movements go too far.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Change, Movement, Belief

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Desire, Quests, Belief, Misled

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Thinking, Belief, Certain

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Facts, Belief

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Democracy, Impossible, Belief

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

- Beth Moore

source: Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.44, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Believe, Belief, Unshakable, Beth, Quake

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.

- Beth Moore

topic: Belief, Belief Systems

My belief is where I get my strength. When I'm struggling with something, I can go to God for help and I'm excited to share that.

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Struggle, Helping, Belief

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

- Bill Crawford

topic: Stress, Worry, Belief, Worry And Fear

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

- Bill Crawford

topic: Kids, Parent, Belief, Great Parents, Raising Kids

The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.

- Bill Nye

source: "Lawrence Krauss, Physicist, Claims Teaching Creationism Is Child Abuse And ‘Like The Taliban’" By Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

topic: Years, Earth, Belief

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Belief, Should, Freedom Of Thought

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

- Biz Stone

topic: Belief, Failing

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

- Blaise Pascal

source: "'De l'Art de persuader' ('On the Art of Persuasion')". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1658.

topic: People, Belief, Attractive

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Believe, Voice, Belief

A belief is an idea around which we close our minds.

- Bob Allen

topic: Ideas, Mind, Belief

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

- Bob Marley

topic: Stronger, Bob, Belief, Marley

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

- Bob Riley

topic: Country, Believe, Belief

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

- Bobby Jindal

topic: Government, People, Belief, Not Trusting

Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.

- Bonnie Gillespie

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: World, Succeed, Belief

I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

- Brandi Carlile

topic: Song, Together, Belief

We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.

- Brandon Mull

topic: War, Belief, Behavior

What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.710, Macmillan

topic: Belief

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

- Brenda Shoshanna

topic: Pain, Suffering, Belief

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

- Brian Aldiss

source: "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

topic: People, Political, Belief

There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.

- Brian Griese

topic: Opportunity, Chance, Belief, Dare To Be Great

My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.

- Brian Kilmeade

topic: Sports, School, Belief, Extracurricular Activities

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

- Brian Koppelman

topic: Artist, Lines, Belief

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

- Brian Lamb

topic: Moving, People, Belief

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

- Brian May

topic: Magic, Way, Belief

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Believe, Reality, Belief

Experience is stronger than belief. Once we have experiences our mind begins to open. This works better than me forcing my own experience or knowledge onto anyone. Show them how to have their own experiences.

- Brian Weiss

topic: Mind, Stronger, Belief

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

- Bridget Riley

source: Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

topic: Reality, Belief, Interpretation

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

- Bruce Barton

source: Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

topic: Essentials, Elements, Belief, Electricity And Magnetism, Magnetism

When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful-we hold the key to freedom.

- Bruce H. Lipton

source: Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.172, Hay House, Inc

topic: Powerful, Keys, Belief

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

- Bruce H. Lipton

topic: Nature, Belief, Study, Deism, God And Nature

Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don't have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so.

- Bruce H. Lipton

topic: Stress, Effort, Belief

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

- Bruce Sterling

topic: People, Belief, Smooth, Well Rounded

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

- Bryan Clay

topic: Sacrifice, Belief, Who You Are

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

- Byron Katie

topic: Belief, Stressful, Stuck

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Taken, Mind, Belief

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Christian, Fresh Start, Belief

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Ideas, Slavery, Belief

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man â€” secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it â€” is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

- C. Wright Mills

topic: Christian, Men, Belief

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.

- Carl Jung

topic: Believe, Needs, Belief

Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Thinking, World, Belief, Provincialism

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

- Carlton Pearson

source: Carlton Pearson (2010). “God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fear, Belief, Blind

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

- Carol P. Christ

topic: Years, Beliefs And Values, Belief

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

- Carter Heyward

source: Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers

topic: Land, Belief, Process

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

- Caryl Chessman

topic: Animal, Able, Belief, Bravado

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.