A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
~Robert Oxton Bolton

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A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
~Steve Jobs

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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
~Henry Brooks Adams

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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
~Francis Wright

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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
~Ambrose Bierce

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Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
~Margaret Atwood

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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
~Samuel Butler

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
~Virgil

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
~Dinah Mulock Craik

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Blind belief is dangerous.
~Kenyan Proverb

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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
~Peter Ustinov

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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
~Kent Nerburn

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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.
~Albert Gallatin

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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
~Malcolm X

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I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
~Septima Poinsette Clark

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I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
~Septima Clark

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I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
~Halle Berry

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
~Leo Rosten

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I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.
~Charles Barkley

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I think you have to refill the well at some point.
~Skeet Ulrich

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I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
~ Tracey Ullman

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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
~Bertrand Russell

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
~Gerry Spence

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If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
~Bill Kristol

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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
~Abdurrahman Wahid

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
~John Lilly

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It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
~Louise Brown

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It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.
~ Tracey Ullman

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Man is what he believes.
~Anton Chekhov

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Men willingly believe what they wish.
~Julius Caesar

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My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.
~Dick Murphy

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Need is not quite belief.
~Anne Sexton

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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
~Sophia Loren

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Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.
~Guido van Rossum

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
~Laurence J. Peter

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Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.
~John Zimmerman

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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
~Francis Wright

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
~Noah Porter

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So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure.
~Charles Bronson

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
~Ralph Hodgson

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
~Lewis Carroll

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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
~Robert Wilson Lynd

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The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
~Paul Watzlawick

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The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
~Michael Crichton

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The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
~Max Born

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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.
~Isabella I

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