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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.
In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he was in full view of course I never moved except to breathe. My eyes would move, too, following his,...
Annie Dillard
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beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the...
Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
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abolition, belief, christianity, freedom, heretics, horror, ministers, profit, religion, slaveholders
Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decid...
Criss Jami
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arrogance, being wrong, belief, change, correction, denial, development, dishonesty, facts, falsehood
Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want to believe that the specific direction we have chosen is the "correct one", if the universe disa...
Miya Yamanouchi
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belief, believe, choices, correct, courage, cross roads, decisions, direction, life journey, life lessons