Belief Quotes - Page 40

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

Your action has nothing to do with your abundance! Your abundance is a response to your vibration. Of course, your belief is part of your vibration. So if you believe that action is part of what brings your abundance, then you've got to unravel that.

The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

I do not believe in Belief.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

Remember this: Beliefs divide, values unite. When we go to the values that underlie so many religious beliefs, they unite us.

Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems.