Belief Quotes

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.
Janet Jackson

Best, Special, Worst

All money is a matter of belief.
Adam Smith

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert Lawrence

Religion, Great, True

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.
Jesse Ventura

Government, Help, Everything

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono

Business, School, Mind

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood

Age, Else, Another

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

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
Janet Jackson

Dreams, Work, Society

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
J. K. Rowling

Life, God, Live

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
Kirstie Alley

Life, Religion, Science

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift

Cannot, Overcome, Defect

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Ovid

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
Lea DeLaria

Easter, Mean, Necessary

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
Jane Smiley

May, Child, Ideas

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.
Paul Ryan

Good, Great, Power

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Edward Abbey

Failure, Reflects

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor Adorno

Truth, Real, Spite

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Andre Dubus III

Important, Strange, Narcissism

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Lily Tomlin

Deep, Language, Complain

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov

Best, Friends, General

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Christopher Hitchens

God, Doubt, Put

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
Paul Ryan

Government, Matter, Off

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter

God, Political, Between

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.
William Kingdon Clifford

Experience, Show, Reflection

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.
Alexei Sayle

Down, Road, System

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
Marco Rubio

Politics, America, Reason

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter

God, Political, Between

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
Tiger Woods

Yourself, Mean, Athlete

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
Clarence Darrow

God, Men, Single

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
Bryant H. McGill

Intentions, Test, Actions

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