Belief Quotes
The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.
I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.
Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.
Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.
The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.
Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I could overcome those obstacles.
If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.
I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.
It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
. . . 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. . . .
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve.
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.
Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.
The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
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.
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Beliefs create reality
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.
It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.