Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

What draws me to family... if I were a psychiatrist, I'd say an enormous amount of unresolved personal material. If I were an anthropologist, I'd say families are at the root of social structures - they shape our identity, our belief systems - and so I find them fascinating. Also, I love the idea that families have narratives that are essentially the family story that is passed along generation to generation - and the rifts start when people question the story.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

Whatever you experience in your life is really but the outpicturing of your own thoughts and beliefs. Now, you can change these thoughts and beliefs, and then the outer picture must change too. The outer picture cannot change until you change your thought.

Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

When I look in the mirror, I see a God-fearing man who would risk it all for family and his beliefs.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

When I see two owls and then two more owls and conclude that I see four owls, I am responding to reasons, and it better not be my choice to believe that two plus two always equals four. If I am a rational person, I will have that belief by necessity, whether I wanted to or not. So it's not that strange to discuss responding to reasons out of necessity.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

When people in my generation started to write, we did not actually have much of a movie industry, much of a theater scene, much of a television industry or other creative outlets. But we had a lot of aspiring writers. All that has changed. We now have a movie industry, television industry and lots of theater. But we have retained a large contingent of writers and a dedicated readership. The larger number of people in society who value writing, the larger number of good writers will be produced. That's my belief. It raises the bar.

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

When something comes up that attacks peoples beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

When we have learned something, there's this thing called belief perseverance. Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.