“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe”
– Anatole France
Tag: Beliefs
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it – even if I have said it – unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
– Buddha
“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”
– Alfred Korzybski
“You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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Think you can – Henry Ford
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
― Henry Ford
“Shyness/social awkwardness: an inability to be oneself stemming from a disbelief that other people might at heart be very much like us.”
– Alain de Botton
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Agere sequitur cruder (we act according to what we believe ourselves to be).”
– Latin saying
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
– Bertrand Russell
“In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.”
– Mark Twain