Top Belief Quotes

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other,...

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on t...

Belief Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

(n.) The thing believed; the object of belief.

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

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.

A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God and like sight it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside and see whether you have sight...

Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors you had better seek another flag.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

She deceiving I believing What need lovers wish for more?

He that believeth not shall be damned.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

An audience that is unwilling to suspend its own presuppositions and biases while considering an opposed (or even unopposed) viewpoint not only frustrates the function of extended argument but effecti...

I write-down to speak-up.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.

Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.

I do not know your woes, Humans, but I do know that they are abundant. Believe in each other, and stand together, and you will conquer them all.

Life flows as a whole, both inside and out, but you divide life with your mind, both inside and outside.

Giving Thanks unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have, no matter how little, into more than enough. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. Gratitude can cha...