Definition of Belief

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Belief

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

The thing believed; the object of belief.

A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

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Belief Quotations

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mohandas Gandhi

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent Peale

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
Deepak Chopra

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
Sigmund Freud

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine

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

Belief Translations

belief in Danish is tro
belief in Dutch is overtuiging
belief in Hungarian is hit
belief in Italian is fede
belief in Latin is fides
belief in Norwegian is tro
belief in Spanish is creencia, credo

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