Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

The Guru and Disciple relationship is where the person has a 100% belief in the Guru and that way you put your trust in the Guru, that he's going to get you out of this mess. If you are a Christian, then Christ is your Guru, and they're all disciples of Christ.

The happy ending is our national belief.

The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for anything transcendent.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. —Elana's father

The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.

The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.

[T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the Right is based on the belief that the rest of the world is bad for America.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

The law of life is the law of belief.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?

The neutralizer to fear is self belief.

The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.