B Quotes
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“Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.”
“Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.”
Source: Powers
“Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.”
“Belief in the supernatural is another powerful route to overcoming the very natural desire to stay alive.”
Source: Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
“Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.”
“Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.”
Source: Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati
“Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.”
“Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry...
To have faith in Yahweh is to know that there is a realm of the spirit beyond the comprehension of our minds... Trusting in Molech... or trusting in your own wisdom and intellect - there's no difference in God's eyes. It's all idolatry.”
“Belief in yourself can certainly be difficult and painful, and the process is not effortless. You will constantly battle fear, doubt, negative feedback, and hundreds of other forces. Like gravity, these forces have the ability to continually pull you down. It takes effort to get out of bed, get dressed, and battle all day on your nine-to-five, then be the weekend warrior for your dream.”
Source: Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time
“Belief in yourself comes from a positive attitude that sees life as worth living and that you have a wonderful part to play in it.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.”
Source: Reach for the Summit
“Belief influences behaviour.”
“Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.”
Source: Parable of the Talents: A Novel
“Belief is a choice. Not everyone is going to love Jesus. I'm not asking them to. I'm not asking them to come on the same spectrum as me. No matter where you fall on the faith spectrum, the spiritual can instill a sense of hope in you that's undeniable. The spiritual doesn't ask you to believe any one thing. It just opens you up.”
“Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.”
“Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.”
“Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.”
Source: The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman
“Belief is a meaningless word. What does it mean? I believe something. Okay, now you have someone who is hearing voices and believes in these voices. It doesn't mean they have any necessary reality. Your whole concept of your "I" is an illusion. You have to give something called an "I" before you speak of what the "I" believes.”
“Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.”
“Belief is a powerful thing.”
“Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can.”
“Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?”
“Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.”
“Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.”
Source: Acts of Faith
“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? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
“Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.”
“Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.”
Source: Shocking Life
“Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“Belief is based upon accepting a specific truth exists within your concept of reality, yet if some such concept can't sustain itself in the real world then indeed it must be assumed a lie.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost
“Belief is blind but with patience it too shall become apparent in due time.”
“Belief is chosen tongue that releases the blessing, so the quality of your future depends on how fluent you become in it.”
“Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality
“Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.”
“Belief is everything when you're performing something. If you don't have the belief behind it, then that actually puts a shunt on the character. It's like, "Does the character believe this for a minute?"”
“Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.”
“Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.”
“Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.”
Source: Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.”
“Belief is indeed psychologically important for the human mind of general population, but that belief should be nicely compatible with scientific reasoning, otherwise that belief turns into prejudice, which is never beneficial to the human life.”
“Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.”
“Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.”
Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production”
Source: Anti-Oedipus
“Belief is not a luxury, it is a biological necessity of the mind.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.”
“Belief is not blind faith - belief is a powerful act of magic.”
Source: Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2
“Belief is not fear. It’s discipline.” — “And discipline without heart is what killed Heaven.”
Source: Anatomy of Faith
“Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almost imperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconscious growth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old has been almost abandoned, almost lost in the new.”
Source: Superstition and Other Essays