Belief Quotes

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of a belief that animals had rights.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

My belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the testimony I have of the Savior and His atonement [is my personal shelter].

There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.

Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

Believe in everything you do cause if you don't have self-belief, you'll be clueless.

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

The absence of theistic belief...

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

No one can change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced upon you from without.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.

This show is our own personal beliefs.

You must learn to deal with your own beliefs directly or you will be forced to deal with them indirectly.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.

My opinion is borne out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs. That marriage is between one man and one woman.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.