Belief Quotes

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

Remember this: Beliefs divide, values unite. When we go to the values that underlie so many religious beliefs, they unite us.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

Unbelief is a belief.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

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

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems.

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.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

A man lives by believing something.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

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

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.