Belief Quotes
Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.
My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
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.
It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.
The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.
The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.
Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.
I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.