Belief Quotes

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.