Belief Quotations | Page 2

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report 'Generation STEM,' high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys'.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.

I always follow my heart and my guts. If I want to do something, I have immense belief in hard work and myself. I have it in me to do well anywhere and in anything I do. I have a deep desire to excel in everything I do.

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need to tell the reader everything. But one hopes that the writer's belief in his characters is evident in the telling, just as the mood created in the writer's mind comes through in the atmosphere of the scene described.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building's front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house.

Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

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

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

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

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.

'Beyond Belief with George Noory' will be an hour-long show that cuts to the heart of what's going on with people today, topics wide-ranging and generally nonpolitical, but even more edgy.

Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.