Belief Quotes - Page 15

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Belief means nothing without actions

Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.

Those who believe in ghosts always see them.

Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved either - there is simply nothing to save you "from" : you have not emerged from any "other" and there is no place else for "you" to disappear into. Ever.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

Opportunity has power over all things.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.