Belief Quotes - Page 58

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

You can have your beliefs and have your faith, but don't try to impose it one me, and vice versa.

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.

Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

But superstition, like belief, must die.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

I regret my disbelief in God.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself.