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We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

We need some standard that will determine how likely a belief is to be true given just that it is stored in one of us, including strangers that one can ask for directions, and with whom one might collaborate.

We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe ...The implications of our beliefs are frightening.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

We're in danger of losing an even more foundational belief of Christianity: that salvation is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ.

We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.

We see only what we know.

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

What draws me to family... if I were a psychiatrist, I'd say an enormous amount of unresolved personal material. If I were an anthropologist, I'd say families are at the root of social structures - they shape our identity, our belief systems - and so I find them fascinating. Also, I love the idea that families have narratives that are essentially the family story that is passed along generation to generation - and the rifts start when people question the story.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity.

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

Whatever you experience in your life is really but the outpicturing of your own thoughts and beliefs. Now, you can change these thoughts and beliefs, and then the outer picture must change too. The outer picture cannot change until you change your thought.

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.

When I see two owls and then two more owls and conclude that I see four owls, I am responding to reasons, and it better not be my choice to believe that two plus two always equals four. If I am a rational person, I will have that belief by necessity, whether I wanted to or not. So it's not that strange to discuss responding to reasons out of necessity.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

When I look in the mirror, I see a God-fearing man who would risk it all for family and his beliefs.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.