#belief

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

#arbitrary #beauty #beliefs #body #exists

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#atheism #belief #less #many #modernity

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#advanced #america #belief #believed #differentiation

We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#belief #cure #did #found #help

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief. ↗

— Dan Brown

#christian #heart #jesus #married #one thing

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#belief #circulate #desires #does #good

A belief may be larger than a fact. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#fact #larger #may #than

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience. ↗

— Isabella I

#concrete #distance #experience #firm #great

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. ↗

— Henry Adams

#digest #man #more #must #now

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#bit #buy #character #comes #credibility