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  A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

  David Hume

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  1748 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, section 10, pt.1.

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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

  Friendship, Cute Relationship, Sweet

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 5

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• I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Believe, Imagination

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life, Believe, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.416, Macmillan

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.136, Penguin

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• Belief gets in the way of learning.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clever, Believe, Creativity

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.33, Penguin

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• The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

  Norman Cousins

  Powerful, Believe, Independent

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• It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

  Winston Churchill

  Serious Things, World, Amusing

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Book, Being In Love

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• Any one can heal who believes that he can, and who will take the time to put that belief in motion through the Law.

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Heal

  "The Science of the Mind".

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• Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Believe, Heartache, Expectations

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.147, Conari Press

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• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Faith, Christian

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

  Frank Laubach

  Faith, God, Christian

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• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

  Isaac Asimov

  Being Yourself, Reality, Believe In Yourself

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• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Clever, Love Life, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.345, Princeton University Press

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• Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Religious, Motivation

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.582, e-artnow

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• Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

  Helen Keller

  Cheating, Evil, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Foolish, Sensible

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Pain, Fear

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.4

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• Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Believe, Healthy, Brain

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.167, e-artnow

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• To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  Michael Korda

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  "Success!" by Michael Korda, (p. 284), 1977.

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• Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.

  Steven Furtick

  God, Faith, Christian

  Twitter post from May 16, 2017

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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

  Peace, Creativity, Thinking

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Pain, Past

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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