Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.

Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

Bad beliefs make bad behavior.

Basically these are beliefs about apocalypse that we have seen as truth in Western civilization for the last couple of hundred years. So we live according to these "truths" and as a result manifesting a life using those beliefs, which can be very self-destructive.

Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.

Belief is a powerful thing.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

Belief creates biology.

Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.

Belief fuels passion, and passion rarely fails.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Belief in oneself is required for healing.

Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.