Belief Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination…

— Aristotle

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support…

— David J. Lieberman

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit…

— James Anthony Froude

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

— Martin Amis

If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.

— Anonymous

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

“A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.”

— Will Bowen

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the…

— Bertrand Russell

A belief is not true because it is useful

— Anonymous

Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it,…

— Carl Sagan

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory,…

— Milan Kundera