#belief

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#belt #cranking #desk #engine #gears

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#belief #believe #christmas #father #household

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#belief #credulity #evidence #slight

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#common-sense #life #society #life

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#belief #bias #control #dealing #derived

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#god #religion #faith

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get

Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#belief #everyone #going #great #i

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#belief #between #conflict #detected #divorce

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#believe #best #contrary #first #friends