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The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

~Charles Rosen

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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.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Action Belief Beliefs Different Different Beliefs Distinguished Essence Establishment Give Habit Modes Rise Which

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It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Been Belief Facts Finding Harmony Inquiring Intent Less Man Most Out Philosophers Scientific Sometimes Strike System Than Will

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Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Anything Anything Else Avoid Belief Calm Change Dissatisfied Doubt Else Free Latter Ourselves Pass Satisfactory State Struggle Uneasy Which While Wish

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The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Action Belief Due Effect Exercise Final Forms Future Influence Longer Mental Nature Only Our Part Stadium Thinking Thought Which Will

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I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.

~Charlie Cox

Topics: Age Been Belief Catholic Deeply Else Even Grew Grown Ingrained Know Life Mind Presented Rational Rest Shake Something Something Else Sometimes Systems Tells Them Up You Young Your

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I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

~Charlie Hunnam

Topics: Am Angelic Artist Belief Boy Doing Had Like Man Overcome People Playing Pretty Roles Stuff Too Who I Am

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At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

~Charlize Theron

Topics: Being Belief Capable Career Come Complicated Did Different Different Way Doing Film-Makers Had Initiative Interesting Know Least Me Other See Thought Way Will Work

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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

~Charlotte Bronte

Topics: Always Am Belief Creed Easy Me Pleases I Am

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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Agreements Belief Confidence Degree Evidence High Kind Made Minds Only Ought Produce Produces Though Through Which

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