Beliefs Quotes
David Arenson
Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams.
2874 Aaron B. Powell
The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.
1894 A.J. Darkholme
No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough.
4518 Amit Kalantri
In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.
4346 Luther Burbank
Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution and venom. Many of the current religious beliefs literally carried into practice would stampede humanity into the old jungle ideas and habits.
1163 A.J. Darkholme
We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.
2205 A.J. Darkholme
Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.
1897 Daniel Willey
There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.
4458 Stephen Lovegrove
Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.
4377 Max McKeown
Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.
2458 Vera Nazarian
A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.
3961 Assegid Habtewold
If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs.
4531 Bertrand Russell
My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
1607 Russell Kyle
Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.
2673 Edmond Mbiaka
Whatever thought or belief that cannot produce happiness or growth in your life, doesn't belong in your mind.
3966 Edmond Mbiaka,
Any thought or belief that doesn't suggest the realities of success and happiness in your life, should never be granted the access to dwell in your mind.
3815 Edmond Mbiaka
Happiness is what happens when you build the level of awareness and courage to continuously identify, challenge, and replace your negative thoughts and beliefs.
2734 Edmond Mbiaka
Never seize to constantly remind yourself that your positive thoughts and beliefs are the pillars of your peace of mind.
1447 Edmond Mbiaka
Happiness is nothing but a blissful feeling that can only be activated when positive thoughts and beliefs are constantly dwelling in one's mind.
2832 Edmond Mbiaka
No one is responsible for your own happiness. Neither could anyone or thing succeed in making you happy. This is because happiness can only be activated or deactivated through your repeated thoughts and beliefs.
4814 Richelle Mead
I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.
4774 Andy Rooney
We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
4613 Lailah Gifty Akita
The possibilities far outweigh the disappointments. Keep learning, keep believing and keep seeking.
2844 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
1961 Donella H. Meadows
Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.
1267 Mark Twain
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
2241 Thomm Quackenbush
Nothing in my beliefs tells me to let my relationship with the divine interfere with romantic love, the friction of sects never getting in the way of the friction of sex.
1399 Christopher Paolini
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.
3228 Flannery O'Connor
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
4102 Karen Armstrong
We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)
3128 Albert Camus
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
2436 Andy Rooney
I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
3051 S.J. Parris
No," I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.
3679 Steven Aitchison
Think about it for a second:
Babies are not born prejudice, they are not racist,they don’t hate, they don’t judge, and are not born believing in christianity, buddhism, sikhism, hinduism, judaism or any other ism.
We, as adults, teach them all these things.
1602 Stephanie Perkins
I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.
4433 Stefan Molyneux
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.
2606 Stefan Molyneux
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
3974 Amit Kalantri
Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.
1730 Chris Prentiss
People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.
1593 Bruce H. Lipton
We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.
2208 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth.
1882 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
As you travel along the roads in life, there is a certain kind of peace that comes with knowing you're on the right path. And when you are faced with adversity, it challenges you but makes you stronger. The road is not always an easy route. Nevertheless, you must not allow your fears to keep you from reaching the destination.
2945 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don't be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If you are filled with untruths, those characteristics make it hard for anyone to believe in you.
2176 John Assaraf
Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not neccesarily "the truth" at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)
2993 F. Scott Fitzgerald
By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.
1875 Eric Chaisson
... researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society.
2629 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.
4433 Beth Revis
Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard.
4470 Dean Koontz
Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.
1794 Banani Ray
Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal within you.
3115 Bryant McGill
Faith doesn't work if you don't even believe it.
3308 Maddy Malhotra
Don't let a mediocre person tell you what you are capable of or how your future is going to be.
3380 Maddy Malhotra
They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.
2553 Suraj Dahal
When you take the time to really know yourself - know your values, know your beliefs, know what is important to you - you can make the right choice, even when it’s hard.We all have choices. We can choose our direction, every single day.
2319 Stanley Victor Paskavich
Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about.
3645 Hal Tipper
Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…
3462 Lawrence Lessig
[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.
4133 S.E. Cupp
We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.
2403 Bryant McGill
In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love.
3032 Bryant McGill
If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.
1126 Bryant McGill
Surround yourself with beautiful and positive people, who love you and believe in you.
2607 C.S. Lewis
You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.
2330 Annie Dillard
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
2249 Anthon St. Maarten
There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.
3154 Edmond Mbiaka
In order to live in the reality of your God's given destiny, you must consistently guard your mind against all self-defeating thoughts and beliefs.
3094 César Aira
I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...
4662 Raphael Zernoff
Experiential reality is a pure reflection of your own state of being. You see what you believe. It is that simple.
1854 Bryant McGill
Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.
2883 Bryant McGill
Dreams do come true for those who dare to believe in themselves.
4437 A.J. Darkholme
Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn't have to wear masks, or pretend to be holy like a holy man, or pretend that nothing can hurt them like a warlord. They could just be themselves, unjudged.
1736 Jay Lake
Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.
1018 Eckhart Tolle
The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
4656 K. Hari Kumar
I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.
4399 Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".
4270 Stephen Lovegrove
A belief is nothing more than a repeated thought which you have chosen to embrace and implement in your life.
2955 Mike Basevic
Are your consistent beliefs serving you or are they holding you back?
4991 Amit Kalantri
Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe.
3355 Paul Graham
At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.
2150 A.J. Darkholme
Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong when the rights mean so much to us that we can’t look at them objectively.
3339 Ashly Lorenzana
Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there.
3356 Usha Cosmico
Death or Samadhi, man's life leads only to the grave. Appreciate your life.
4163 Stefan Molyneux
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
4032 W. Somerset Maugham
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
2700 Edmond Mbiaka
It is time for you to change your negative thoughts and beliefs and stop being your worst enemy of progress.
1873 A.J. Darkholme
People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.
3437 A.J. Darkholme
What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.
3354 Julian Houston
People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.
3900 Geoff Ryman
Milena found Cilia outside, holding her bamboo box. Milena hugged her. ‘I’m sorry about your shins,’ she said. Milena lifted the lid of the box, and saw it, the precious paper, ruled in staves. People were generous. Milena had never believed that.
3170 Michael Ende
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
1000 A.J. Darkholme
When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.
4866 Dave Champion
Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.
3513 Jim George
It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.
2069 Peggy Haymes
If you think something’s too hard, it will be. If you think it’s just not possible or not possible for you, then you’ll probably be right. If you think it can’t be done then you’re not the person to do it. Because you’ll fail.
3967 Christine De Pizan
[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.
4498 Hark Herald Sarmiento
Don't entrust your future on others' hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God's guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them!
2023 Philip G. Zimbardo
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
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