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Belief Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as…
- It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
- To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse.
- Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it…
- In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
- People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
- If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat…
- The will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false according to the…
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- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has… — Bruce Barton
- He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens… — Samuel Johnson
- It is difficult, it is pleasant. It is true, it is real. You will tell yourself this and many other things based… — Unkown
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll… — Roseanne Barr
- Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family… — Mario Andretti