Belief Quotes
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems.
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.
It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.
Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.
Sometimes you've got to # believe in someone else's belief in you until your # belief kicks in.
Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.
At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.
What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.
Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.
What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.
Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.
Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.
The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.
The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief
The only way to create change in anyone's psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
What happens when you believe something with all your heart? Belief fuels enthusiasm, and determined enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts our spirits.
To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love.
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.