Belief Quotes - Page 54

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

Neural science, which is the study of the brain, tells us that we have up to one billion brain cells with thousands of branches that communicate with each other much like a complex highway system. The more we attend to something, or the more we engage in certain behaviors, the more those particular cells communicate and the pathways between them deepen. This is how our values, our beliefs, and our motivations are actually formed.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

Belief in limits creates limited people

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Christ instructs us to stand up bravely for our beliefs... He asks us to let our lights shine.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act.