Belief Quotes

5318 Belief quotes by 2883 unique authors

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's… — Fran Lebowitz
A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks." — Wayne Dyer
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement… — David Simon
New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of… — Bill Maher
I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world. — Jack Layton
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and… — Kevin Costner
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of… — Andre Gide
Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has… — H. L. Mencken
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we… — Cesar Chavez
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. — Thomas Carlyle
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing. — George Carlin
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone. — George Santayana
It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared. — Malcolm X
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with… — Ronald Reagan
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they… — Ronald Reagan
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the… — James Madison
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility… — Ronald Reagan
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should… — Margaret Chase Smith
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
I regard belief as a form of brain damage. — Robert Anton Wilson
I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't… — Hugh Laurie

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