Belief

Belief

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:

    “We are as great as our belief in human liberty—no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    “Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    “Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)