Belief Quotes - Page 70

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words.

I really believe you have to make television with the belief that you're going to continue on. If you hedge bets and you catch yourself being measured, I usually find that's a bad sign. Maybe you know something that you don't want to know.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.

You can say, "I don't believe in anything," but you do because you believe in nothing. That is your belief system.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

When we have learned something, there's this thing called belief perseverance. Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.

When I look in the mirror, I see a God-fearing man who would risk it all for family and his beliefs.

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

You know, as Secretary of State, I've been privileged to represent this great country, and I know its strengths, and I know its challenges. One of its strengths is the belief - here and abroad - that this is a place where you get ahead on merit. It doesn't matter where you came from; it matters where you're going.

It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.

Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth