belief

1.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

- Barnum, P.T.

2.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

- Carl G. Jung

3.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

- Oates, Joyce Carol

4.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

- Sophia Loren

5.

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

6.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

- Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

7.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.

- Galsworthy, John

8.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

- Epictetus

9.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

- Cannon's Law

10.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

11.

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

- Hardwick, Elizabeth

12.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

- Marshall, Peter

13.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

- Rudolph, Wilma

14.

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

- Lippmann, Walter

15.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

- Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

- Cousins, Norman

17.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

- Peter Ustinov

18.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

- Waitley, Denis

19.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

- Bertrand Russell

20.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

- Gerry Spence