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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge that reign and to embrace the lifelong journey of submitting more and more of every aspect of your life to His good, just, and peaceable reign, as well as alerting others to God's kingship by both word and deed.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Do not act following customary beliefs.

Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Don't be afraid of your own strength.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will.

Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

Don't judge your success by other peoples opinions. Have self belief.

Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.

Equations are the devil's sentences.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world.