One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

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

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
George Eliot

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
Dee Hock

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

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
Aleister Crowley

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Mortimer Adler

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
Richard Schickel

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Ovid

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