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Belief

noun

Any cognitive content held as true.

A vague idea in which some confidence is placed. Synonyms: feeling, impression, notion, opinion. "What are your feelings about the crisis?" , "It strengthened my belief in his sincerity" , "I had a feeling that she was lying"

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"Belief" Quotes from Famous Books

... grateful sense of the generous aid which education in the South had received from friends in the North making for the unity and harmony of our common country. It testified to a hearty belief that there should be institutions well equipped in which provision should be made for the higher education of those called to leadership, as preachers, teachers, etc. It especially called attention to the opinion that the gifts of the North in aid of educational ...

— The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898 • Various

... every smallest change of feeling in their bodies; and from any unusual feeling, perhaps of the slightest kind, they apprehend great danger and even death itself. In respect to all these feelings and apprehensions, there is commonly the most obstinate belief and persuasion." (Quoted in Leared, ...

— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

... reigns around you. You feel that you are in the presence of your Creator, before whom you humble yourself, and not of man, before whom you clothe yourself with pride. Your very solitude seems to impress you with the belief that, though hidden from the world, you are more distinctly visible, and more individually an object of Divine protection, than any worthless atom like yourself ever could be in the midst of a multitude—a mere unit ...

— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... forming a land party, they managed to reach a distance of one hundred and forty miles from the sea, and finding the river still of considerable size, and full of large freshwater reaches, Stokes hugged the belief that at last the highway to the ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

... current belief among those with whom you converse, that there are many of the fishermen who have means of their own, which they conceal ...

— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie

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