Shared Belief Quotes

Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.

Anybody who comes together in a large group and they all believe the same thing, they're going to generate a certain amount of power. The Bible says one puts 1,000 in flight, and two 10,000, and so on and so forth. And so even if me and somebody else got into agreement about something, we would have more power than each of us by ourselves.

And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

The enormous faith of many made for one.

The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. Such an opinion is spoken of as 'public opinion,' a fiction which is appealed to by individuals and by groups as supporting their special views. It is impalpable, illusory, transient; "'tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone"; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

We need each other, We believe in one another, And I know we're gonna uncover, What's sleepin' in our soul...

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.

I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.

When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you're doing something right in the world, and that feels good.