Belief Quotes - page 3

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants' creed, the bees' creed. View quote
John Galsworthy
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit. View quote
Andrei Sakharov
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
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. View quote
Ulrich Beck
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal. View quote
Brian May
Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science. View quote
Daniel Dennett
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships. View quote
Jada Pinkett Smith
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings. View quote
Aleksandar Hemon
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. (Christopher Lasch)
If evolutionary selection is the basis for a belief in profit maximization, 'then we should postulate that basis itself and not the profit maximization which it implies in certain circumstances. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans
Belief creates the actual fact. View quote
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. View quote
George Eliot
Of ghosts All argument is against it but all belief is for it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Science has taught... me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Need is not quite belief. View quote
Anne Sexton
An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived. View quote
John Searle
In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality. (Mukesh Ambani)
That everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. View quote
David Foster Wallace
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. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. View quote
George Orwell
My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier. View quote
Lin Yutang