In the popular sense, an agnostic is someone who neither believes nor disbelieves in the existence of a deity or deities, whereas a theist and an atheist believe and disbelieve, respectively.

Walter reveals to Luis he believes Julia to be an impostor and the intended wife to be dead by her hand, and that she may be working with someone.

For example, someone who believes absolutely in nonviolence considers it wrong to use violence even in self-defense.

The Economist magazine referred to Brin as an " Enlightenment Man ", and someone who believes that " knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance ", a philosophy that is summed up by Google ’ s motto " Organize the world ’ s information and make it universally accessible and useful " and " Don't be evil ".

A Marian apparition is an event in which someone believes the Blessed Virgin Mary has supernaturally appeared to one or more people.

* Erotomania A delusion where someone believes another person is in love with them.

A mark is also someone who believes everything about a certain wrestling organization is good.

In Chassidic tradition, there ’ s a saying, “ Someone who believes in all the stories of the Baal Shem Tov and the other mystics and holy men is a fool ; someone who looks at any single story and says “ That one could not be true ” is a heretic .”

If you told someone who purports to be a sage of Israel that the Deity sends an angel who enters a woman's womb and there forms an embryo, he would think this a miracle and accept it as a mark of the majesty and power of the Deity, despite the fact that he believes an angel to be a body of fire one third the size of the entire world.

Mr. Ferguson, evidence to the contrary, believes he is not guilty and that someone else killed all those people aboard the train.

Interestingly imagining someone who believes an instance of a Moorean sentence is tantamount to considering an agent who is subject to, or engaging in, self-deception ( at least on one standard way of describing it ).

However, Jones ' son Stephan believes his father may have directed someone else to shoot him.

In practice the only relevant justification is that the landlord believes and also that it is objectively necessary for the protection of the health or safety of the disabled person or someone else

Augustine wrote that lies told in jest, or by someone who believes or opines the lie to be true are not, in fact, lies.

Whoever believes they were directed against the ` aqida or " personal theology " of basic tenets of faith, or the " discursive theology " of rational kalam arguments against heresy is someone who either does not understand the critics or else is quoting them disingenuously.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) defines six subtypes of the disorder characterized as erotomanic ( believes that someone is in love with him / her ), grandiose ( believes that he / she is the greatest, strongest, fastest, richest, and / or most intelligent person ever ), jealous ( believes that the love partner is cheating on him / her ), persecutory ( believes that someone is following him / her to do some harm in some way ), somatic ( believes that he / she has a disease or medical condition ), and mixed, i. e., having features of more than one subtype.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.

Hammarskjold believes the U.N. is an organization that settles matters in a procedural way.

Patchen believes that the world is being destroyed by power-hungry and money-hungry people.

Far from being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism in the best possible light.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

The faculty believes that broad autonomy is necessary to preserve its freedom in teaching and scholarship.

He believes that this is a sound approach to gas competition in builder developments where gas is available.

What matters is that while Fromm's reading of the data is not the only one possible, it is precisely the one we would expect from a writer who earnestly believes that every man can and ought to be happy and satisfied.

No optimism is more baseless than that which believes that the high speed of modern digital computers allows for use of the crudest of methods in searching out a result.

He, too, believes in good intentions and is astounded and offended when they are not taken for the deed.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

Indicating the way in which he has turned his back on his 1910 philosophy, Mr. Reama said: `` A Socialist is a person who believes in dividing everything he does not own ''.

After Cuba and Laos, it was argued, Mr. Khrushchev will interpret the President's consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness -- perhaps even panic -- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage he now believes he holds.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.

To be human, he believes, is to seek one's own destruction: the Freudian `` death-wish '' cliche inevitably cited whenever laymen talk about auto race-drivers.

the Briton Stirling Moss, one of the greatest virtuosi of all time, believes that ultra-fast road-circuit driving is an art form related to ballet.

He believes that greatness is a marriage between the man and the times as was aptly represented by Churchill, who would very possibly have gone down in history as a political failure if it had not been for Hitler's war.

* The Prefect: The Prefect believes at first that the talk of plague is a false alarm, but on the advice of his medical association, he authorizes limited measures to combat it.

Later in the film, when the need to change is more urgent ( as he believes the city is about to be poisoned by Lex Luthor ), he simply jumps out a window of the Daily Planet offices, changing at super-speed as he falls ( the film merely shows the falling Kent blurring into a falling Superman ) and flies off.

Harry believes the effort will lead to their deaths and rides off alone.

However, he believes that humanity will only be better off if it follows his prescriptions, so that even if he is incorrect it is the right course of action.

Chloe is reading newspaper reports on the Byron murder theory as proposed by Bernard, before talking about determinism with Valentine, in a conversation echoing the one between Septimus and Thomasina earlier ; Chloe, however, believes that sex is the force throwing off the universe's ordered plan.

To put him off, Bianca announces that she will not marry until her sister is married ( as she believes Katherine will never marry ).

However, in the early tales, Faust is irrevocably corrupted and believes his sins cannot be forgiven ; when the term ends, the Devil carries him off to Hell.

Andros mistakenly believes Cullen is dead and careens off his bike.

The latter is reluctant in case she agrees to his proposal, but Nightingale believes the young man in question — angered by the ill offices she had done him since — would show Tom her letters, the knowledge of which he could use to break off the affair.

Cotto believes that Margarito cheated because there was a picture of Margarito with his glove off and his wrap was cracked HBO analyst Harold Lederman had also scored the fight even.

; The Stainless Steel Rat ( 1961 ): At the beginning of this first novel, the Stainless Steel Rat believes he has pulled off a successful bank job, but is out-conned into working for the government.

After rejoining the X-Men, Archangel's brooding behavior lessens, after Jean reveals to Warren that his wings ( which Warren believes have a mind of their own ) have actually been operating off Warren's own subconscious desires for violence.

Rowf, by contrast, " can't understand a word he says ," distrusts his " sly, sneaking " ways, and believes that the tod is taking advantage of his strength to provide himself with easy meals in return for advice without which Rowf feels he and Snitter would be better off.

Alan used the same argument when proposing to cut off all social security payments to elderly people as he believes they should have considered how they would look after themselves instead of wasting their money on " ghastly holidays in Blackpool ".

The firm in this instance believes that it is more cost effective to lay off the employee, causing more unemployment than under perfect experience rating.

He believes Underhill to be a wizard who defeated the dragon and made off with the treasure.

Cricket historian David Frith believes that " there was an apparent touch of genius about his batsmanship ", and Alan Gibson described Hutton's off drive as " the glory of the game.

* 29 May – A man attempts to hijack Qantas Flight 1737, a Boeing 717 – 200 with 52 other people on board, shortly after taking off from Melbourne Airport in Melbourne, Australia, hoping to crash the plane into Australias Walls of Jerusalem National Park in Tasmania, which he believes will release the Devil from his lair and bring about Armageddon.

In his dream, the Great Hall tells him to go to the Two Towers, which is in fact the World Trade Center, and he believes that by jumping off of them and casting a spell, he will finally join the Great Hall.

He believes that since it was visible to him, it must have been in an orbit close to that of his spacecraft, probably a piece of ice or Mylar insulation having broken off of it.

Molly believes the choosing was fixed, a claim Linoge brushes off and denies, but in such a way as to raise doubt.

Foley co-wrote and starred in the comedy The Wrong Guy, in which he played Nelson Hibbert, an office worker who finds his boss murdered, mistakenly believes he will be blamed for the crime and runs off as a fugitive.

" The energy regulator believes that energy generators manipulate the power market for profit when supplies are tight because network operator National Grid has to pay utilities to turn their plants on or off to balance supply and demand.

He believes that he is a highly moral individual who loves his fellow man, but mistreats his students and passes off their designs as his own for profit.

Unfortunately, Martin's surly attitude plays against most of the applicants ; that is, until he meets Daphne Moon, a friendly and sweet English woman who nevertheless puts Frasier off through her numerous eccentricities, most prominently the fact that she believes herself to be psychic.