Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.

People do things for love and belief and passion, not just because they're paid to do it.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

People will often say "You can't change other people." My research shows this societal belief is not only dis-empowering, it is scientifically false.

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

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

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

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.

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

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

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.

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

PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

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.

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.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

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