Beliefs

Examples

• Abu Bekr was a man without doubts, his beliefs cut down to acts cleanly as a sharp knife cuts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I very nearly acquired the jargon at Silverton's age, and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• With respect to all of them, it set up a test: Where are the real objects from which these ideas and beliefs are received? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• An interest in discovery took the place of an interest in systematizing and proving received beliefs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was a world of lost or faded beliefs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Beliefs and aspirations cannot be physically extracted and inserted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The required beliefs cannot be hammered in; the needed attitudes cannot be plastered on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They wanted to form their beliefs about it at first hand, instead of through tradition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The old beliefs, that had lasted so long, seemed better than the new. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Life covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories and defeats, recreations and occupations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• William James might also be cited for his defense of those beliefs that are beyond the realm of proof. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Try to judge the great beliefs that have swayed mankind by their inner logic or their empirical solidity and you stand forever, a dull pedant, apart from the interests of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The customs and beliefs of different communities were found to diverge sharply from one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They tend to act with the same controlling ideas, beliefs, and intentions, given similar circumstances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Borne hither and thither, 'they speedily fall into beliefs' the opposite of those in which they were brought up. Plato. The Republic.
• He stated the case for those beliefs which influence life so deeply, though they fail to describe it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Clearly the last few centuries have been typically a period of revision and reorganization of beliefs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The Greeks were induced to philosophize by the increasing failure of their traditional customs and beliefs to regulate life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• With the renewal of physical existence goes, in the case of human beings, the recreation of beliefs, ideals, hopes, happiness, misery, and practices. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Edison is slow to discuss the great mysteries of life, but is of reverential attitude of mind, and ever tolerant of others' beliefs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His beliefs and ideas, in other words, will take a form similar to those of others in the group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Not to be tedious, they had many other beliefs of a similar kind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This view was so contrary to prevailing beliefs that Copernicus refused to publish his theory for th irty-six years. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Babylonian records of med icine like those of astronomy reveal the prevalence of many superstitious beliefs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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