It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. – Mahatma Gandhi
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. – Margaret Atwood
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief. – Karen Maitland
The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief. – Judith Tarr
It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. – Muhammad Ali
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things. – Maya Angelou
My belief is that ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell. – Kelly Slater
In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached. – John Strachan
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. – James Anthony Froude
An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived. – John Searle
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. – Kent Nerburn
I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn’t have the skills to solve problems. – Leonid Hurwicz
Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them. – Martha Beck
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
In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism. – Joseph Jacobs
My belief is that you live your life by example, and not by a caption on a magazine! – Jonathan Knight
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth. – Jack Schwartz
Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites. – James P. Carse
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. – Lillian Smith
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. – Johann Georg Hamann
The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure. – James Rainwater
Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact. – Liz Williams
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry. – Joseph Glanvill
Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true. – Joseph de Maistre
Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work. – John Gurdon
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
It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. – Lindy Boggs
Professor Hawking is heralded as ‘the genius of Britain,’ yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking’s writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came? – Kirk Cameron