Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

For me it was a calling to public service. I often tell people other than a whole lot of zeros, he and I have a lot in common, and that is a belief in the American dream because we both [with Donald Trump] have lived it.

For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.

For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.

Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 believe in the easy way.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Good times weaken belief.

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

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

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

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.