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"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others."
"The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs."
"The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed."
"I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck."
"A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again."
"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out."
"I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise."
"Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy."
"I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me."
"One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press."
"A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma."
"I think that I've always been on a search. I have my own kind of belief in love is the being, but I think that I've always been searching for truth and I think there's lots of truths and I think we should respect that in each other, and that's really what I wanted to bring across."
"Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian."
"There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it."
"When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it."
"You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!"
"Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules."
"If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything."
"I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief."