Belief Quotes

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe ...The implications of our beliefs are frightening.

Believe in what you can do and be not deterred by what others say.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

Models are to be used, not believed.

Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.

Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or beliefs

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

If you have a lemon; make lemonade.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

It stands for diversity. It stands for vision and strength. It stands for belief in the right things. That's what I think it stands for.

The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.