Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.

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.

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

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

Knowledge and belief are sometimes worlds apart.

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.

Let fools believe what fools believe.

Know or listen to those who know.

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.

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.

Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Many people functionally share this belief that work has no greater meaning than the paycheck it provides. A natural consequence of this faith commitment is the belief it's okay to do mediocre work so that in your free time you can enjoy your true passions.

Marco Rubio was the darling of the Tea Party. Marco Rubio was elected as a Tea Party conservative Republican. Marco Rubio was sent to Washington clearly with the belief that he was part of a new conservative majority that was not tied to the establishment.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.