What We Believe Quotes

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

Believe there is good in the world.

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.

Paradise is full of idiots who believe it exists

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

Fight night is all about believing in yourself, believing in what you can do, and doing it.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.