Belief Quotes

5318 Belief quotes by 2883 unique authors

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is… — Archibald MacLeish
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth… — Alfred North Whitehead
I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose… — Brandi Carlile
It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and their occupants, which I have… — George Fawcett
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable… — Helen Keller
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it,… — Helen Keller
Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of… — Swami Vivekananda
After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the… — Carl Sagan
Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend, to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others the vision… — Robert Muller
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something… — Albert Einstein
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The… — Albert Einstein
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able… — Albert Einstein
I shall not convert you at the end of my argument. I think the argument is sound. I hold that belief in God is not… — Cornelius Van Til
When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just… — Grace Lee Boggs
But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to… — Yiyun Li
Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of your ideas makes… — Greg Koukl
If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist… — Bruce Willis
When a child speaks of a past life memory, the effects ripple far. At the center is the child, who is directly healed and changed.… — Carol Bowman
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the… — Stephen Batchelor
While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges… — Stephen Batchelor
I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me to tell stories… — Anna D. Shapiro
Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference. — Barbara Kruger
Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a… — Joss Whedon

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