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Definition of Belief

Belief

  1. 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.
  2. A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
  3. The thing believed; the object of belief.
  4. A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

Belief Quotations

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

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

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

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal
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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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