Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible - without questioning it. And this was the beginning of the scientific method. This is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. I think this made Leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of God's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the Bible on faith.

Let fools believe what fools believe.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.

Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.

Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Many people functionally share this belief that work has no greater meaning than the paycheck it provides. A natural consequence of this faith commitment is the belief it's okay to do mediocre work so that in your free time you can enjoy your true passions.

Marco Rubio was the darling of the Tea Party. Marco Rubio was elected as a Tea Party conservative Republican. Marco Rubio was sent to Washington clearly with the belief that he was part of a new conservative majority that was not tied to the establishment.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.

Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?

My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

My belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the testimony I have of the Savior and His atonement [is my personal shelter].

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.