Believe the best of everybody. – Rudyard Kipling
We are what we believe we are. – C. S. Lewis
All money is a matter of belief. – Adam Smith
Know or listen to those who know. – Baltasar Gracian
I don’t believe in the landscape. – Fernando Pessoa
Believe while others are doubting. – William Arthur Ward
Let fools believe what fools believe. – Janet Morris
You are what you are by what you BELIEVE! – Oprah Winfrey
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. – F. F. Bosworth
Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. – Roger Ebert
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. – Napoleon Bonaparte
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. – Soren Kierkegaard
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. – Benjamin Franklin
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. – Edith Hamilton
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge – it is the end. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. – James Allen
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. – Mahatma Gandhi
You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in. – Debbi Fields
Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions. – Cullen Hightower
Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. – Vince Lombardi
You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you’re wrong? – Richard Jeni
Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are. – Noah Porter
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. – Aldous Huxley
To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem. – Tom Wicker
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. – Miguel de Unamuno
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. – Dale Carnegie
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed. – Winston Churchill
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. – Norman Vincent Peale
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. – Jonathan Swift
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. – James Dean
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. – Ernest Thompson Seton
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. – Felix S. Cohen
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. – Max De Pree
A lie is a lie… unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it’s a “commonly held belief.” – Christopher Titus
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all. – George Bernard Shaw
The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality. – Brian Tracy
I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind. – Javed Akhtar
Any one can heal who believes that he can, and who will take the time to put that belief in motion through the Law. – Ernest Holmes
I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise. – Rebecca West
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat. – Mark Twain
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. – Isaac Newton
The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice. – Peter McWilliams
I have to build my own boat this time. It’s a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it. – Brian May
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. – Bertrand Russell
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
Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss. – Max Muller
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts… It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them. – Timothy Keller
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
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question. – Orson Scott Card
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe. – Isaac Asimov
There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us. – Phillips Brooks
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc. – Brian Lindstrom
The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership – not natural or social “forces” – are the prime movers in human affairs. – George Roche III
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. – Bertrand Russell
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything. – Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject’s investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. – Michel de Certeau
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits. – Agnes Repplier
If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God. – Chapman Cohen
In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining…I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world. – Rosalind Franklin
It’s been very well demonstrated that our belief system effects how we behave and how we perform. . . It also effects our lifestyle, so that if we don’t believe that we can help ourselves, we probably cannot. If we don’t believe that positive information is useful to our health and well being, it probably won’t be. – Edgar Mitchell
