Belief Quotes

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.

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

... 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.

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 don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

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.

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

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.

Belief in limits creates limited people

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.

The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer.

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.