#belief

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. ↗

— Alan Watts

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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ↗

— Simone Weil

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The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

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There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change. ↗

— Tiger Woods

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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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