Belief Quote by Paul Elie

I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone…

— David Hume

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

— Robert Rhodes James

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

— Nic Pizzolatto

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

— Dallas Willard

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer…

— Walter A. Davis

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is…

— Wallace Stevens

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

— Libba Bray

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

— Anonymous

In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

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

— Martin Amis