Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.
~ Leo Baeck
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
~ Alan Watts
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
~ Jane Mcgonigal
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
~ Bertrand Russell
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
~ Tina Brown
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
~ Jensen Ackles
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.
~ Richard Phillips
The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.
~ Ron Fournier
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
~ Edward Abbey
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
~ Allan Bloom
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
~ Evgeny Morozov
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
~ Aaron Huey
I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.
~ Mary Steenburgen
There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.
~ Pope Benedict Xvi
I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.
~ Matt Haig
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
~ Garry Trudeau
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~ Walter Lippmann
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
~ James Anthony Froude
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
~ William Shenstone
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
~ Max Stirner
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
~ Adrian Cronauer
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
~ Adam Clayton
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
~ Gordon Brown
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
~ Margaret Atwood
Belief is the death of intelligence.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
~ Emile M. Cioran
We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.
~ Cory Booker
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
~ Marguerite Gardiner
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
~ Francis Bacon
I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
~ Zayn Malik
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.
~ Gloria Steinem
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
~ Jon Meacham
