Belief Quotes

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

'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?

All money is a matter of belief.

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.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

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.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

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.