What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.
A man is only as faithful as his options.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.