Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

This show is our own personal beliefs.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

Those who believe in ghosts always see them.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

Thought is the strongest thing we have.

Thought plus belief equals manifestation.

Through our perceptual systems, we represent our surroundings, aiming to do so accurately, where the aiming is functional or teleological, rather than intentional. And the same goes for our functional beliefs. Through our judgments, however, we do intentionally, even consciously, attempt to get it right.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

Tomorrow's realities come from our beliefs today.

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a lot of respect for the person and it's like that with music as well...You should love your instrument and respect it.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.

Trump and I have a lot in common, and that is a belief in the American dream because we both have lived it. I think it's what animates our president-elect more than anything else, is a belief in the boundless potential of every American to live the American dream. And, I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both saw it. And in our own ways, we both lived it.

Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.

Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

Trust your doubt. Always fight for your beliefs. That is the path beyond thought.

Trump has a mind that in many ways is always under duress, because he's always seeking to be accepted, loved. He sees himself as constantly victimized by others and by the society, from which he sees himself as fighting back. So there's always an intensity to his destructive behavior that could contribute to his false beliefs.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.