Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.

You shouldn’t believe everything that you see on TV or especially on the Internet. Seeing is not always believing anymore.

‎"You shouldn't feel so bad about being afraid of so many things." "Why not?" "Because if you weren't afraid never ever, then you couldn't be brave never ever.

You studied and did your duty, believed and did what you were told with a promise of a life that is already here. Life is just over those hills. You were told you were on a journey; when all along your sorry ass was sitting inside that car analyzing every belief known to man. Your path will reveal the truth about you. Nobody cares what you believe; they care about who you are.

you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either

You will always think that you cant do it, you may think that the idea you have is useless, but the idea you only have can change your life.

You will find the solution when your belief of ‘I am the doer’ breaks and you acquire the knowledge of 'who the doer’ is.

You will only rise to the level of your belief.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist - which I am.

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared acoustic environment. What these messages mean - meaning, what are the consequences and the changes of behavior in any species. And it has as much to do with us individually and biologically as it does with the shaping of cultures and beliefs.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

All anarchists believe in worker's control, in the sense of individuals deciding what work they do, how they work, and who they work with. This follows logically from the anarchist belief that nobody should be subject to a boss.

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.