Belief Quotes - Page 37

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Gandhi, who went to Wendy's and asked, "Where's the belief?" Never got a dinner!

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.

Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.

When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

Believe it and achieve it.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.