Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you

Random? You'€™d almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a particular belief system'€™s scriptures. Nah . . .

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

Repentance is belief in action.

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Remember this: Beliefs divide, values unite. When we go to the values that underlie so many religious beliefs, they unite us.

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

Richard and I, along with millions of Americans - including even Joe Donnelly - believe that life is a gift from God. To try and construe his words as anything other than a restatement of that belief is irresponsible and ridiculous.

Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.