Belief Quote by John Searle

[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as…

— Wilfrid Sellars

A true intention or belief does not need to be spoken. It is revealed through one's action.

— Abhishek Tiwari

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

— John Searle

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

— Michael Polanyi

“Intentional states function only given a set of Background capacities that do not themselves consist in intentional phenomena. Thus, for example, beliefs, desires, and…

— John Rogers Searle

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Any intentional state only functions, that is, it only determines conditions of satisfaction, against a set of Background abilities, dispositions, and capacities that are…

— John Rogers Searle

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

— Anonymous

To me, words convey feelings, and feelings are just vibrations that we feel, so words are never as authentic as what feelings are and…

— Noah Centineo

Note to self: A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

— Robert Oxton Bolt

Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our…

— Paul Fry