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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

— James Baldwin

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✓Similar Perspectives

We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.

— Louise L. Hay

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

— Wole Soyinka

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

— Albert Bandura

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

— Tony Robbins

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

— Nicolas Roeg

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

— Daniel Gilbert

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

— Marcel Duchamp

✗Opposing Perspectives

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

— Jane Roberts

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

— William Kingdon Clifford

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

— George Bernard Shaw