Belief Quotes - Page 55

Our experiences tend to support our belief systems.

I don't see why any president has to talk about his belief in God.

The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of good values, made me the individual I am now.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.

One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.

Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.

Equations are the devil's sentences.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Belief is only the beginning.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

You must learn to deal with your own beliefs directly or you will be forced to deal with them indirectly.

No one can change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced upon you from without.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.