Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve.

Fundamentalism, in and of itself, is benign and can be personally beneficial, but the anger and prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can permanently damage your brain.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

Gandhi, who went to Wendy's and asked, "Where's the belief?" Never got a dinner!

George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

George W. Bush was great on the belief that America was the solution to the world's problems, not the problem, and was a great defender, believer.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

Good times weaken belief.

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

"Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some.

Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.

Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.

Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

He who has a why can deal with any what or how.

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.