Belief Quotes

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.

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

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

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

As human beings we have a tendency to filter out information that does not match up with our preconceived beliefs, including the supremacy of our organization.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.

It is every Muslim's duty to fight those of a different belief until only Allah is worshipped around the world. Everybody has the opportunity to accept Allah and to change to the right path.

My message is strong and my belief is strong, in the fact that we can still be provocative and have fun and just get informed.

I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.

Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

Our experiences tend to support our belief systems.

The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.

I don't see why any president has to talk about his belief in God.

To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.