#belief

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against. ↗

— Eric Massa

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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art. ↗

— M. F. Husain

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God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. ↗

— King Hussein I

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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. ↗

— Martha Beck

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