Distinction: Truths or Beliefs?

Is there a distinction between the truth and a belief? How can you know something as a truth without believing it? Can you know something without being told? When an idea is pressed over and over again, and there is a strong basis for the idea, it easily becomes known. Once an idea is known it transfers into a belief and then truth. Truth may be derived from believing. If you are told one thing …

…power by the events of September 11, 2001? Is our truth still that we are unattainable in stature? Are we still told that this should not change our thoughts on our country? Were we proven wrong, but told not to believe it? When we are told something surmountable times it is embedded in our minds and we believe. The reasons for the belief may vary, but it is still there and it is still true to us.