Belief Quotes - Page 13

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

By far the best proof is experience.