His Belief Quotes
42 His Belief quotes by 37 unique authors
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A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
— Woodrow Wilson
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I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't…
— Hugh Laurie
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Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost…
— Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence,
— Eero Saarinen
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Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.…
— David Hume
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It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time…
— Colson Whitehead
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A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines,…
— Frederic Farrar
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I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into…
— Arthur Koestler
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The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief,…
— William George Jordan
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Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist.…
— Mancur Olson
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The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that…
— Oliver Burkeman
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The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and…
— Darrel Ray
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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