Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
Ludwig WittgensteinStichwörter: belief superstition causal-nexus
What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!
Steve MaraboliStichwörter: motivational success belief self-knowledge conviction believing-vs-knowing
You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
Elizabeth BearStichwörter: belief vampires werewolves
When others in doubt, your strong belief steers.
Toba BetaStichwörter: doubt strong belief steer
We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
W.B. YeatsStichwörter: belief thought body
None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.
AnonymousStichwörter: belief islam brotherhood
WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM?
"Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?"
NO
"Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact."
THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN.
...
"Really? Then what would have happened, pray?"
A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.
Stichwörter: belief
A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.
Vera NazarianStichwörter: man world belief moon believe cheese beliefs laughing real imaginary flat-earth man-in-the-moon flat green-cheese
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?
Neil GaimanStichwörter: belief stories faith magic fairies
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
William Kingdon CliffordStichwörter: harm society belief danger actions inquiry true credulity evidence savagery
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