Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

I have to impose my belief to share with a person.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.

I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.

I know a lot of great success stories of those who were excellent problem-solvers because they had found a need that they could fill well. As a result, they built organizations around them and those organizations had belief systems that could be described as a form of leadership.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

I know that I am absolutely blessed beyond belief!

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow.

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

I'm at my strongest when I'm able to let go, when I suspend my beliefs as well as disbeliefs, and leave myself open to all possibilities. That also seems to be when I'm able to experience the most internal clarity and synchronicities.

I'm a product of a Notre Dame education; those professors taught me a lot about how you separate the city of God from the state. I'm also a reverent follower of the tradition of Thomas Jefferson. My years of public life have simply confirmed the intensity of my belief that what I have learned from Joe Evans and Thomas Jefferson was correct.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

I'm interested in how a person forms her beliefs, how that happens. Beliefs of all kinds make up the animating force in each of us. Without them we would be paralyzed, lifeless - the glove without the hand.

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.

I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

I'm of the belief that dating "potential" is almost always an exercise in frustration.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.

I'm reverent from a distance.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer.