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:

    Three factors—the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work—have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.
    Arlie Hochschild (20th century)

    That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
    Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680)

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