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:

    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)

    Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
    Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)