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:
“Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“What
One believes is what matters. Ecstatic identities
Between ones self and the weather and the things
Of the weather are the belief in ones element,
The casual reunions, the long-pondered
Surrenders, the repeated sayings that
There is nothing more and that it is enough....”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Intellectualism is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.”
—William James (18421910)