Man is what he believes.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

But a man who has lived by truth — and you have believed in what he has lived — he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I’m nearly out of my mind.

"A man who lives never asks, "What is living?" and he has no theories about living. It is only the half-alive who talk about the purpose of life."

Man is what be believes.” — Anton Chekhov

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

He who believes needs no explanation.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are a member of a chosen people, awash in the salacious exports of an evil culture that is turning your children away from God, believe that you will be rewarded with an eternity of unimaginable delights by dealing death to these infidels — and flying a plane into a building is only a matter of being asked to do it.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone.

But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying – even more terrible than dying young.

Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, not by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it. Carlos Castaneda

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.