Beliefs are mental attitudes or percieved representations of the world about what is true that direct behavior. 

 

Beliefs are assumed truths, not to be confused with knowledge which is justified truth. 

 

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

 

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
~ Philip K. Dick

 

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. 
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

Disbelief is not the same as denial. Disbelief is the absence of a belief, denial is the rejection of a belief. ~Austin Cline

 

Faith as belief is belief without evidence or knowledge. ~Austin Cline

 

Our brains become intimately emotionally entangled with ideas we come to believe are true (however we came to that conclusion) and emotionally allergic to ideas we believe to be false. ~Alex Lickerman

 

People believe what they want to believe. ~ Tab Hunter

 

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. ~C.S. Lewis

 

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? ~Yann Martel, Life of Pi

 

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. ~Joseph Campbell