Belief Quotes

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.

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.

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.