Beliefs Quotes

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

It's the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs. We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.