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Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.

Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.

So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.

So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

Something that I wanted to do through the film is try to explore the roots of belief, because everything has to do with beliefs. When I studied the side of the rationalists and the skeptics, and the side of the believers and so-called psychics, I found out that both of them, no matter what they claim to do, behave in a very similar way. They only accepted what confirmed their previous positions, and tended to reject everything that put them at risk.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

Sometimes you've got to #‎ believe in someone else's belief in you until your #‎ belief kicks in.

So much time is spent on belief. So little time is spent on love!

So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

So, to me, it does shift, but it goes round. It just keeps going round and round and round. So if you have the longevity you have the belief and you have the resources to just keep at it you just ignore all that and just keep going where you're at.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

Still, it formed one of my basic beliefs about success which is this: most of the time, success can be measured in terms of how much more than others you have of something that's in short supply. This includes money, reputation, respect, etc.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs.

Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and behavioral sophistication some species exhibit without supposing that they have genuine beliefs. But once these ethologists finish making the case for animal belief, they quickly move to talk of animal knowledge as well. What I argue is that this is not a mere façon de parler.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

That's what got me through 65 years of life - my belief in God and what He's done for us and what He will do for us.

That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.

That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.

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.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.