#belief

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#comes #envy #gifts #ignorance #lack

I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#belief #concord #could #emerson #firm

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #cop-out #evade #evaluate #even

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. ↗

— John Dewey

#belief #comes #does #education #equally

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#habits #rather #superstitions #than

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#belt #cranking #desk #engine #gears

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #full-moon #habits #harvests #life

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#belief #character #common #common denominator #denominator

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny. ↗

— John Ensign

#around #belief #bush #chance #choose

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#belief #deep #fought #grew #i