Quotes with belief

Quotes 121 till 140 of 190.

  • William Lyon Phelps The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Mary McCarthy The happy ending is our national belief.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Jonathan Swift The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Fran Lebowitz The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James A. Froude The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Eileen Caddy The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Audre Lorde The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Winston Churchill The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • C. Everett Koop The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky 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.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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