Belief Quotes

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

You do not base your belief that Jesus is the Saviour from sin upon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved; but you base it upon the Word of the living God; and there you stand.

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn't respect that.

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

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Men willingly believe what they wish.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Whatever you believe about your body, your cells believe too. They don't question anything you think, feel, or believe. In fact, they hear every thought, feeling, and belief you have.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

As we are, so we see.

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.

We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

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

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

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.

The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

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.

All money is a matter of belief.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

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

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.