Belief Quotes

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.

My belief is where I get my strength. When I'm struggling with something, I can go to him for help and I'm excited to share that.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

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

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Examine what you believe to be impossible, and then change your beliefs.

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Bad beliefs make bad behavior.

If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.

I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

It is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to protect itself.

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers.

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

A climate in which belief may flourish

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.