Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 man who believes he can do it is probably right.

The law of life is the law of belief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The only limitations man has are the ones he sets for himself.

The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

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

The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.

The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.

The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent so it is sometimes held not to exist. This mistaken belief arises because we can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking.

The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.