B Quotes
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“Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.”
“Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.”
“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.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition
“Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.”
“Belief is only the beginning.”
“Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.”
“Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.”
Source: Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World
“Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'”
“Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.”
“Belief is the basis of intuitive behavior.”
Source: Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power
“Belief is the capacity to see not only life's surfaces but also its holy depths, to be able to look at events unfolding around us but also to look through them, above them and beneath them to preceive what is truly happening.”
“Belief is the cornerstone of all the great achievements since the beginning of time.”
Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want
“Belief is the death of intelligence.”
Source: Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati
“Belief is the heartbeat of your journey. It is your guiding angel. Protect and encourage your belief like a good friend, as you use every means possible to reinforce and extend it.”
Source: A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments
“Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”
“Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.”
“Belief is the most fascinating equation for it can add and multiply...but equally if miscalculated it can subtract and divide.”
“Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.”
“Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.”
“Belief is the opposite of doubt. Belief and doubt are not two forms of knowledge, determinable in continuity with one another, for neither of them is a cognitive act; they are opposite passions. Belief is a sense for coming into existence, and doubt is a protest against every conclusion that transcends immediate sensation and immediate cognition.”
Source: Philosophical Fragments
“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
“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.”
“Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.”
“Belief is what you are prepared to accept.”
Source: Life’s Events In Focus
“Belief is what you do when there is no data.”
“Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.”
“Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?”
Source: Miscellaneous writings
“Belief is working towards something without having to see any visible indication or outcome.”
“Belief isn't always easy.
But this much I have learned---
if not enough else---
to live with my eyes open.”
Source: Thirst: Poems
“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”
“Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.”
“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”
Source: Erewhon Revisited
“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we
imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. That each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction. Proposition, I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her and yet, I feel like something important has happened to me.”
Source: Cloud Atlas
“Belief made no difference to the truth.”
“Belief matters less where people matter more.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.”
“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.”
“Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”
“Belief means nothing unless you are faithful to it, until the end; where you learn the truth.”
“Belief means nothing without actions”
“Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.”
Source: This Is All
“Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.”
Source: On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
“Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.”
Source: The Gathering
“Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“Belief or religion is not spirituality.
Fools believe anything. Any idiot can start a religion. And many do. But to whom truth matters, only that one can be spiritual. So, there's an ostentatious difference.
Seeking is half being 'There'.
Each is the other.
Find.”
“Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.”
“Belief releases creative powers.”
Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big
“Belief’s always right.. It’s all right and it’s also unmistakable. Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he’d die. Only isn’t it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won’t it be part of your own flesh and spirit?”
Source: Maurice
“Belief should be a conscious choice, not something you're brainwashed into when you're too young to understand or question it. Faith isn't something you pass down like an heirloom. It's not tangible or absolute. Not even for a priest. It's something you have to keep working at, like marriage or children.”
Source: The Burning Girls