Belief

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
Faith
Belief
May
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
Wisdom
Belief
Democracy
Ignorance
But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.
James Meade
Thought
Belief
Economics
Expression
Study
If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
Peter McWilliams
Change
Action
Belief
First
The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
Bryant H. McGill
Belief
Actions
Intentions
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
Brian May
Belief
Creativity
Months
There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
Brian May
Belief
Magic
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
Imagination
Belief
Exercise
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset Maugham
Life
Belief
Horror
World
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
James Martineau
Religion
God
Belief
Mankind
Mind
Universe
Will
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Peter Marshall
Belief
Force
When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.
Albert Maltz
Belief
Future
Mankind
Profit
World
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
Jena Malone
Belief
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Bryan Magee
Religion
Belief
Being
Beliefs
Content
Magic
Mankind
May
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
Belief
Liberty