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A mental attitude of acceptance or assent toward a proposition without the full intellectual knowledge required to guarantee its truth.
Something that you believe is true without having any proof.
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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make- believe continues into adulthood.
from It’s Not Easy Being Green by Jim Henson
Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
In a culture conditioned to think in categories of Cartesian dualism or of a pre-Copernican cosmology that split the heavens and the earth, Spinoza was taken either as an atheist who reduced everything to matter ... or as a pantheist...
Source: Constantine’s Sword by James Carroll
Here they are hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour and the only thing that keeps them from flying out of their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.
Source: 3rd Rock from the Sun
Anaximander of Miletus argued that the Sun was a hole in a fire-filled ring that encircled the Earth and revolved around it. Similarly, he believed that the Moon and stars were nothing more than holes in the firmament, revealing otherwise...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
This is not to say that the new wave of philosophers necessarily wanted to deny the existence of the gods, rather that they merely refused to believe that it was divine meddling that was responsible for natural phenomena.
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...
Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God by David Fideler
Another reason to adopt moderate skepticism concerns the very real danger that we might be deceiving ourselves in our beliefs, even when we think our beliefs are based on sound evidence. One way in which this can happen is well...
Source: The Beatles and Philosophy by David Detmer
Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global...
Source: Memoirs by David Rockefeller
Love's got the world in motion and I know what we can do - Love's got the world in motion and I can't believe it's true
Believe, believe in me - Believe, believe
The impossible is possible tonight - Believe in me as I believe in you
Believe in me, I’m with the high command
If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin', even if it wasn't would you still come crawlin' back again? I bet you would my friend...
Make believe I'm everywhere - Given in the light Written on the pages is the answer to a never ending story
Einstein's down on the beach standing into the sand, 'cause everything he believes in is shattered
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real
I can't believe we're here for no reason - There must be something we can believe in
We've gotta believe that there's a reason we're here - Yeah, there's a reason we're here
And I'm trying to believe in things that I don't know - The turning of the world, the color of your soul
Lift up the receiver, I'll make you a believer
Some things you have to believe, but others are puzzles, puzzling me
Don’t believe the church and state and everything they tell you -
I did not believe the information I just had to trust imagination
How can we believe the world is round?
I never believed in things that I couldn't see, I said if I can't feel it then how can it be - No, no magic could happen to me, and then I saw you
I'd like to make myself believe, that planet Earth turns slowly
It’s magic, you know, never believe it’s not so
