Belief

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.

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I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.
- Patrick Dixon in Building a Better Business, p. 14

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief
- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

People want to believe in something-even if they know it is false.
- "Tanis Half-Elven", in Dragonlance

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
- Michael Korda, as quoted in Marketing Construction Services (2000) by Paul Pryor, p. 14

Nothing is so firmly believed as, as what we least know.
- Montaigne, Essays (1580-88)

If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I’ve seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me.
- "The Nameless One" in Planescape: Torment

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ground for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell, in "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" in Unpopular Essays (1950)

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
- Hannah Szenes, in Hannah Senesh : Her Life and Diary (1938)

For the heart, it needs to believe.
- Simon Soloveychik, in Parenting for Everyone (1989)

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
- Franz Werfel, as quoted in Philippine Studies (1953) by Ateneo de Manila, p. 269; also in Everest : The Mountaineering History (2000) by Walt Unsworth, p. 100

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
- Robert Anton Wilson, in Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977)

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, as quoted in My Favorite Quotations (1990) by Norman Vincent Peale