Belief Quotes

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.

There is no greater level and form of belief than believing in yourself.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Need is not quite belief.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.