Belief Quotations

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society.

Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is never a solitary activity, nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension.

'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.

Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine.

What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.

Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible.

The love of what you do, combined with your belief in what you do, will not determine your success. It will determine how hard you will work and how dedicated you will be to achieving it. Success just shows up from there.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

Dad has always been - and still is - a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his beliefs... and I like to do the same with regard to my own true beliefs, regardless of potential criticism or mockery.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money.

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own.

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

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

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

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world

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

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress,

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they believe an omnipotent God should do. It reasons that if God is all powerful, then certainly He would not have taken millions of years to make the earth.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.