I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you can believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.
Believe - Belief Quotes
We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears, which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question.
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant the mind, the easier it was to imprint it.
Men to a great extent believe what they want to – although I see in that no basis for a philosophy that tells us what we should want to want.
No amount of manifest absurdity… could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
Man is what he believes, for belief is the great force of the mind. To accomplish great things we must dream – plan – act – believe.
Every idea is an incitement. If offers itself for belief and if believed, it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it, or some failure or energy stifles the movements at its birth.
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
