Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

I went in there with 100% belief, even though I knew how great the champion was, I just had to believe in myself.

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.

I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

Keep the faith. Whatever that may be. Don't get too depressed yet, because I have a belief in America being very diverse and ornery, and containing a lot of people who are not going to roll over very easily for a totalitarian dictatorship. That is what I think.

Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.

Knowing that we'd meet Ruby at the point where she stopped believing, I knew I was also going to have to deal with what you do with your capacity for belief if you don't have an object for your belief.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

Knowledge and belief are sometimes worlds apart.

Know or listen to those who know.

Know what you want and believe that you can have it.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

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.