Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

As individuals think and believe, so they are.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?

As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.

As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

Bad beliefs make bad behavior.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks.

Basically these are beliefs about apocalypse that we have seen as truth in Western civilization for the last couple of hundred years. So we live according to these "truths" and as a result manifesting a life using those beliefs, which can be very self-destructive.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

Belief, confidence in yourself.. the world’s your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.