Belief Quotes - Page 20

I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.

You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

We see only what we know.

I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.

A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.

My belief is that most people are conservative. They just haven't been asked yet.

It must be scary to stand up for beliefs also held by Eric Holder.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out of them and rest upon them, rather than the reverse.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.

Belief does not change what is.

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

The first belief we must have if we're going to create change quickly is that we can change now.