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Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.

Belief is a powerful thing.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

Belief, confidence in yourself.. the world’s your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can.

Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.

Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

Belief is what you do when there is no data.

Beliefs, and the feelings that we have about them, are the language that "speaks" to the quantum stuff that makes our realty.

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

Belief creates biology.

Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.

Belief fuels passion, and passion rarely fails.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Belief in oneself is required for healing.

Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.