Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems. — Randy Gage Copy Share Image
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The only way to create change in anyone's psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions -… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“tolerance does not, cannot, and should not mean having to submit to rules of belief systems to which one does not ascribe.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Sometimes there is no sugar-coating it. Sometimes you have to challenge people's belief systems in a progressive way. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their… — Rozz Williams Copy Share Image
“... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think that things like curses or whatever - those labels - come from belief systems, universal belief systems. So when you… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Eliminate irrelevant and inaccurate comunications about what it means to be male or female, black or white, young or old, rich or… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can… — Brooke Burns Copy Share Image
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
I think when I started doing stand-up, that's when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is -… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits,… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
