Belief Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion”

— Patricia Crone

Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will…

— Harvey Dunn

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

— George Berkeley

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

— Anonymous

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

— Graham Chapman

...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

— George Henry Lewes

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

“Ideas are gifts from the gods. When we receive one we have to bow to them and offer thanks. Humbly. And believe in the…

— Mary Alice Monroe

An idea is more powerful than an opinion. Without an idea the human race would cease to exist. Because an idea becomes the solution…

— Jeremy Limn