Belief Quotes - Page 32

If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

Beliefs create reality

One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.

Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.