Belief Quotes

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.

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

It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.

The victory's in believing.

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

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

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

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.