"Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief."
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"I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow."
"Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics."
"Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex."
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
"Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief."
"Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell."
"The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer."
"Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will.""
"Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves."
"Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same."
"We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another."
"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."
"Know or listen to those who know."
"Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true."
"A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks.""
"Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action."
"Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited."
"A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions."
"Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end."