Belief Quotes - Page 33

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else.

Good times weaken belief.

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse, 10 times as ignorant, 10 times as unfair and tyrannical, 10 times as complaisant and pusillanimous, and 10 times as devious, hypocritical, disingenuous, deceitful, pharisaical, Pecksniffian, fraudulent, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, lewd and dishonest.

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.