Beliefs Quotes

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

This show is our own personal beliefs.

A belief is an uneducated guess.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason.

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, false, and he is thereby apt to acquire a doubt of everything, including his own beliefs.

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

Blessed are you, who mediate and believe in God’s Holy Scriptures.