Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
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Famous quotes containing the word belief:
“Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“The disaster ... is not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect—this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they’re not critical to a culture’s existence.”
—Twyla Tharp (b. 1941)
“Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)