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How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.

I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I love all of Octavia Butler's books. She's created some very complicated black heroines with a variety of belief systems. There are many great books out there, but those are a few of the ones that stand out.

I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I'm embarrassed by it and proud of it.

I am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

I am personally committed to helping Israelis and Palestinians achieve a peace agreement. With determination, compromise, and the belief that peace is possible, Israelis and Palestinians can make a deal.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God. I receive such and such doctrines, not because I can prove them to be compatible with reason, not because my judgment accepts them, but because God says they are true. Now this is one of the best services we can render to God,-to submit ourselves to him in our belief of what he has revealed, and ask him to fix his truths in our hearts, and make us obey them.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

I believe that the vast majority of people that are unfaithful are monogamous in their beliefs. The ones who are not monogamous in their beliefs either live in poly relationships or consensual non-monogamous relationships, or they have divorced. If it's very bad, then people don't stay married these days in the West. They can be married and have their family, but they want something else - they want something that they don't have in their lives, or simply to be someone that isn't who they are in the context of their marriage.

I believe that if we do have a commonality of beliefs we should clarify them, we should strengthen their coherence and we should also develop common projects that produce a lived community of relationships.

I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

I can honestly say Ive never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.

I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.

I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.

I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.