Belief Quotes

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

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
David Hume

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. Truman

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

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.
William James

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

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud

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

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false?
Blaise Pascal

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
Buddha

A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.
Dalai Lama

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

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
Ezra Pound

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — myth is more potent than history — dreams are more powerful than facts — hope always triumphs over experience — laughter is the cure for grief — love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulgham