Belief Quotes - Page 3

• The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

  William James

  Order, Space, Biographies

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.50, William James

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• A belief may be larger than a fact.

  Vannevar Bush

  May, Facts

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, (pp. 28-29), 1967.

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• The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Men, Unhappy

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

  Dean Koontz

  Depth, Embrace, Greater

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.462, Bantam

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• As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do not speak. We are left to believe. Fools, children. Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.

  Don DeLillo

  Niños, Creer, Hombres

  Don DeLillo (1985). “White noise”, Viking Pr

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• Si un número suficiente de nosotros cree, se puede hacer que exista algo nuevo. La estructura de creencias crea un filtro a través del cual el caos se convierte en orden.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Order, Filters

  Frank Herbert (1987). "Herejes de Dune", p.119, Penguin

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• "La creencia en la verdad comienza con la duda de todas aquellas "verdades" en las que antes creíamos".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Doubt

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• The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Niños, Mentir, Creer

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

  Marcel Proust

  Facts, Spheres, Penetrate

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.219, Modern Library

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• La creencia de que sólo hay una verdad y que uno mismo está en posesión de ella me parece la raíz más profunda de todo el mal que hay en el mundo.

  Max Born

  Truth, Roots, Evil

  Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.143, Springer

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• It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Believe, Arguing, Easier

  Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.201, Wesleyan University Press

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• What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

  William James

  Believe, Community, Individual

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.311, Routledge

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• Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

  James Siegel

  Law, Logic, Immune

  James Siegel (2005). “Detour”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

  William Bernbach

  Mind, Marketing, Desire

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• But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Information, Action, Individual

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• Ningún vencedor cree en el azar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Believe, Chance

  The Gay Science bk. 3, no. 258 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

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• My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Believe, Thinking

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). "Gatillo cósmico: el secreto final de los illuminati", New Falcon Pubns

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• All the great ages have been ages of belief.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Has Beens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.430, Рипол Классик

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• The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

  Stanislav Grof

  Impact, World, Ethical

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• Durante demasiado tiempo, nos hemos centrado en nuestras diferencias -en nuestra política y orígenes, en nuestra raza y creencias- en lugar de valorar la unidad y el orgullo que nos une.

  Bob Riley

  Orgullo, raza, diferencias

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• Ha sido para mí un privilegio inconcebible haber representado al Estado de Luisiana en el Congreso y haber recibido la bendita misión de Embajador de Estados Unidos ante la Santa Sede.

  Lindy Boggs

  Bendito, Privilegio, Luisiana

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• The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Country, Western Values, East

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• As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

  Michel de Certeau

  Believe, Firsts, Etc

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• La creencia en Dios ayuda a proporcionar un fundamento para arbitrar nuestras decisiones. Sin este fundamento, estamos condenados a vivir esencialmente vidas sin forma.

  Armstrong Williams

  Umpires, Decision, Foundation

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• The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Sunset, Dust, May

  'Livre sans nom: Twelve Reflections' (privately printed 1934) no. 12

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