Belief Quotes - Page 52

You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

In battle, one must adhere to one's beliefs.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

If there is any person that I do follow somewhat closely, at least ideas I like, it's been Frederich Nietzsche, but he's been dead a few hundred years. And at the same time, I wouldn't say that I actually, from a political standpoint, like many of his ideas. It just happened to be the core of a lot of my own beliefs of trying to modify my body and live indefinitely. What really applies is an evolutionary instinct to become a better entity altogether.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

It really is true that you are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

I'm interested in how a person forms her beliefs, how that happens. Beliefs of all kinds make up the animating force in each of us. Without them we would be paralyzed, lifeless - the glove without the hand.

All tastes are expressions of belief.

Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.