Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

— Jay-Z

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

— Lydia M. Child

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

— Edward Abbey

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

— Blaise Pascal

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

— David Hume

Belief is the death of intelligence.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self-interest backed by force.

— George Bernard Shaw

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

— Garry Trudeau

Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

— Said Nursi

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

— Ambrose Bierce