Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan Bloom

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Ulrich Beck

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes

Belief gets in the way of learning.
Jeremy Collier

Need is not quite belief.
Anne Sexton

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
Christian Bale

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
Harlan Ellison

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold J. Toynbee

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

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles Lamb

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

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

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

Belief is thought at rest.
Larry Harvey

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
Anna Howard Shaw

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Robert Redford

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
Stanley Fish

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
Hideki Tojo