Belief Quotes

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

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

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

A belief is really only a thought that you keep thinking.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

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

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.

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

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

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

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

belief is the death of intelligence.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.