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Japanese Proverb

yamai wa ki kara sickness is a thing of the spirit

Jacob Chanowski

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Anais Nin

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life. Les Jeux.

Evelyn Scott

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

Dr. David Schwartz

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Roger John

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.

Evelyn Scott

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

Anthony Walton

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

John W. Gardner

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

William James

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our mi

Charles Robert Darwin

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

William James

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Francis Bacon

Truth is a naked and open daylight??? Truth which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the enquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, and the belief of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of i

Socrates

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Thomas Fuller

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Bhagavad Gita

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Henri Frdric Amiel

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Margaret Atwood

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

Gerry Spence

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

Ann Landers

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

D. Elton Trueblood

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Denis Watley

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Samuel Johnson

(On his belief that ???tensegrity??? gives coherence to the structure of the universe.)

Honore' de Balzac

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Joseph Conrad

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

William James

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

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.

Thomas Jefferson

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Max Born

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Andr Dubus

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.

George Santayana

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Ambrose Bierce

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

William James

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

Harry S Truman

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Peggy Noonan

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

Shirley Jackson

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.

Louis D. Brandeis

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

T. S. Eliot

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

James Truslow Adams

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Maurice Chapelain

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Blind belief is dangerous.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

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

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

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

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.

...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

God, I don???t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to o

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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.

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word but which begins the second, or a

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.

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.

"Yet now you approach the limits - not of belief, but of comprehension."

"Who's belief is correct... And how do we prove it?" - Delenn

"It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into belief."

Science ... warns 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

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishm

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.