Belief Quotes - Page 5

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.

I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.