The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.
The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
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.
Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.
Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.
Will Smith's acting reaffirms my belief in the American perfection.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
I was never the most technical wrestler. But my coaches definitely instilled in me the belief that if you can push yourself and practice smarter than the other guy, you can beat him.
Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
