I believe it's true

But I wish I knew.

-Zen Graffiti

A belief is a mental construction.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Beliefs are the foundation of a building,
and they are the foundation
you build your life upon.
-Alfred A. Montapert

Beliefs are only structures in our thinking
and we an change them.
-Shaun de Warren

All beliefs are bald ideas.
-Francis Picabia

A belief is a living dream
with an emotional signature
populated by specific agreements
that define and defend its point of view.
-Ray Dodd

Belief is of four kinds.
The first kind is a belief accepted because it is believed by all.
The second is a belief accepted
because it is believed by someone in whom the believer trusts.
The third belief is the belief that reason helps one believe.
The fourth belief is conviction,
of which one is as sure as if one were an eyewitness.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

 Belief always precedes knowledge.
As soon as one knows something
one has gone a step beyond belief,
and one's belief will then be applied
to something further away, until there too,
knowledge catches up and replaces it.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Belief is like a staircase;
it is made in order to go upward,
but if one remains on one step
then there is no progress.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

All beliefs are simply degrees of clearness of vision.
All are part of one ocean of truth.
The more this is realized the easier it is to see
the true relationship between all beliefs,
and the wider does the vision of the one great ocean become.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Man is made by his belief.
As he believes, so he is.
-The Bhagavad Gita

Man is what he believes.

-Anton Chekov

When you believe something,
you have made it true for you.
-A Course in Miracles

What one believes to be true
either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
-Gene Fowler

You are free to believe what you choose
and what you do attests to what you believe.
-A Course in Miracles

We can believe what what we choose.
We are answerable
for what we choose to believe.
-John Henry Newman

When you believe in a thing,
believe in it all the way,
implicitly and unquestionable.
-Walt Disney

Do what you believe in
and believe in what you do.
All else is a waste of energy and time.
-Nisargadatta

Integrate what you believe
into every single area of your life.
-Meryl Streep

If there's one thing you have to believe in,
it's the existence of universal laws.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

I believe in all that has never been spoken.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

I can tell you honest friend, what to believe:
believe life; it teaches you better than book or orator.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Believe as much as your intelligence allows you to believe,
as much as you can reach;
do not believe what your intelligence does not allow you to believe.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Belief consists in accepting
the affirmations of the soul;
unbelief in denying them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easier to believe than to doubt.
-Gene Fowler

It is better to believe than to disbelieve;
in so doing,
you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
-Albert Einstein

It is always easier to believe than deny.
Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-John Burroughs

There are two ways to be fooled.
One is to believe what isn’t true;
the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
-Soren Kierkegaard

There is no strength in unbelief.
Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might.
It is the truth shining from behind
that gives the strength to disbelieve.
-George MacDonald

Belief like any other moving body
follows the path of least resistance.
-Samuel Butler

To affirm a belief is one thing,
and really to believe is another.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

What a man believes may be ascertained,
not from his creed,
but from the assumptions upon which he habitually operates.
-George Bernard Shaw

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses;
it is an idea that possesses the mind.
-Robert Bolton

You never know how much you really believe anything
until its truth or falsehood
becomes a matter or life and death to you.
-C. S. Lewis

If you say or think a thing long enough
you will believe it.
-Venice Bloodworth

Believing takes practice.
-Madeleine L'Engle

What a man would like to be true,
that he more readily believes.
-Francis Bacon

What each man wishes,

that he also believes to be true.

-Demosthenes

Nothing is so firmly believed
as that which we least know.
-Michel Montaigne

Everyone believes very easily
whatever he fears or desires.
-Jean La Fontaine

With most men, 

unbelief in one thing

springs from blind belief in another.

-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The useful way to evaluate beliefs
is by whether they are
resourceful or non-resourceful for you.
-Bill Harris

What good is a a belief
if it does not benefit your life?
-Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

If you don't change your beliefs,

your life will be like this forever.

Is that good news?

-W. Somerset Maugham

All belief that does not make us
more happy, more free, more loving,
more active, more calm,
is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater

Your beliefs can be like fences that surround you.
You must first see them
or you will not even realize that you are not free,
simply because you will not see beyond the fences.
They will represent the boundaries of your experience.
-Jane Roberts, "Seth"

All personal breakthroughs
begin with a change of beliefs.
-Anthony Robbins

The shamans say that the Universe makes you right -

so whatever you choose to believe (your working hypothesis),

you will continue to find evidence to support it.

so, why not make your working hypothesis extraordinary?

-Alberto Villodolo

Anything the human mind can believe,
the human mind can achieve.
-Napoleon Hill

What you believe with feeling
becomes your reality.
-Brian Tracy

Whatever becomes a real, living belief
in your consciousness
flows into your experience.
-Carleton Whitehead

Belief conditions experience,
and experience then strengthens belief.
What you believe, you experience.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Belief creates the actual fact.
-William James

If one believes in what does not exist,
the belief will make it exist.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

By believing passionately
in something that still does not exist,
we create it.
-Nikos Kazantzakis

In the province of the mind,
what one believes to be true is true or becomes true,
within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally.
These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.
In the mind, there are no limits...

In the province of connected minds,
what the network believes to be true,
either is true or becomes true
within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally.
These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.
In the network's mind there are no limits.
-John Lilly

Some things have to be believed
to be seen.
-Ralph Hodgson

You'll see it when you believe it.
-Wayne Dyer

The more we believe in ourselves
the less we need to see to believe.
-Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

The outer conditions of a person's life
will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
-James Allen

Belief becomes biology.
-Deepak Chopra

All that we lack in life
is mostly because of our lack of belief.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

What we obtain is what our belief allows us to obtain,
either in wealth or virtue, power or rank or spirituality.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Belief is the ignition switch
that gets you off the launching pad.
-Denis Waitley

Belief may be no more, in the end,
than a source of energy,
like a battery one clips into an idea to make it run.
-John Maxwell Coetzee

Believe you have it
and you have it.
-Desiderius Erasmus

What we thoroughly believe we can do,
we will eventually find a way to do.
-Christian Larson

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty
that powerful beliefs provide,
you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything,
including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
-William Lyon Phelps

If you believe you can, you probably can.
If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't.
-Denis Waitley

When you believe you can - you can!
-Maxwell Maltz

Believe as though you are,
and you will be.
-Ernest Holmes