Belief Quotes - Page 42

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.