I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

— Immanuel Kant

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

— Isaac Newton

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

— Tommy Lee Jones

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

— Margaret Atwood

Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

— Milton Friedman

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

— John Tuley

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

— Emile M. Cioran

I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

— Matt Haig

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

— Mahatma Gandhi