Quotation Explorer - 'Beliefs'

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. - James Thurber
Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there. - Debasish Mridha
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking... - Leo Tolstoy
Trust comes from courage; beliefs are derived from fear. - Debasish Mridha
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. - Philip G. Zimbardo
Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life. - Steve Maraboli
If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has. - Charles Baxter
At our core there is silence and stillness…that is truly who we are when you peel away the titles, the ego, the thoughts, the beliefs, the intellect….once you get REALLY naked –you will see that who you are has nothing to do with all that we have given meaning to. - davidji
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one. - George Gaylord Simpson
If someone’s beliefs are fixed and false, he or she can do anything to justify their beliefs. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
The problem is not religion or God. The actual problem is authoritarianism, mixed with the desire to angrily impose one’s personal apparently idealistic beliefs on others. - Abhijit Naskar
If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. - Alfred A. Montapert
We need to accept that our skin colour, our race, beliefs, our genders does not separate us, we stand as one, one united person, let us unite! - Anon1467
The difference between people lies within their beliefs. - Mduduzi Risimati Mbiza
In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them. - Mark Allen Smith
You are perceptual beings with different vantage points and - it does not matter how much information is given - you cannot see beyond the vibrational limits of where you are standing. You cannot live or see or experience outside of your own individual beliefs. - Abraham Hicks
Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren’t genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you. - Christopher Babson
Those persons achieves the success who sustains their beliefs among the change of conditions. - Aditya Pandya
Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life. - Deborah Day
Our emotions are like programs that function under the control of the operating system comprising of our beliefs. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? - W. Somerset Maugham
I shall challenge all authority. Question all who claim dominion over me. I am not a thoughtless being but a man with his own beliefs. - Grandaddy BAD
You are only as limited as your beliefs. - Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
Examine your beliefs and break free. - Maria Erving
People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating. - Orrin Woodward
It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness. - Debasish Mridha
Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story. - Jacqui Stedmon
...history should continually seek to challenge our assumptions. It should prompt us to look differently at the world and make us less self-assured about our own ideals and beliefs. - Christopher Kelly
Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be - Anthony Robbins
Your thoughts, beliefs, and imagination create you. - Debasish Mridha
People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free. - Michael Specter
We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society. - Debasish Mridha
Let us not dwell into past thoughts, worn out ideas, false beliefs. Let them go so that you can create a new self by emptying your mind and filling it with new thoughts, ideas, and visions. - Debasish Mridha
The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs. - Debasish Mridha
Don't entrust your future on others' hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God's guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them! - Hark Herald Sarmiento
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs. - Samuel Butler
You cease to be wise or intelligent when your beliefs are false. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives. - Pema Chödrön
Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think. - Debasish Mridha
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do. - Sam Harris
What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong? - Chuck Austen
Passion is the fuel that drives ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results by aligning their hearts, minds, beliefs and efforts. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does. - Sukhraj S. Dhillon
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being. - Martha Beck
We are all capable of so much more than we think, the only thing we need to do is change our beliefs - Steven Aitchison
Beliefs divide us, values unite us." from Godless Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs - Jeff Rasley
Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can't hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The real problem is the narcissist, for he can't control his anger and believes no one else is entitled to their own opinion or beliefs . - Mamie Thornbrue
The measure of your greatness is not by the narrowness of your beliefs, but by the broadness of your vision. - Debasish Mridha
When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some. - Harry A. Blackmun
Guilt is helpful only when it keeps us acting in line with our beliefs and morals. Otherwise, it creates needless suffering.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? - Carl Sagan
Beliefs are the umbrella that we use to protect ourselves on rainy days. - Debasish Mridha
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. - Peter Ustinov
Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do. - Miya Yamanouchi
Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
All beliefs and understanding about everything in this universe that you currently hold to be true, are false. - Mamur Mustapha
It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs. - Steve Maraboli
Beliefs and opinions are nonsense. I don't even want to know what I think. - Marty Rubin
All humans are carrying invisible torchlights directing us to our destinies called our beliefs. - Auliq-Ice
Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today. - Roy T. Bennett
The most important and most difficult thing that you can change is your fixed false beliefs. - Debasish Mridha
When our beliefs are false we can justify anything to prove our beliefs. - Debasish Mridha
The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society. - Abhijit Naskar
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. - Mahatma Gandhi
We are equal, we re all Humans, we are all related in some way. It doesn't matter what colour our skins is, our race, beliefs, gender, age, we are all equal. I say now is the right time to unite, if we do not unite soon something bads gonna happen - Anon1467
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience. - David P. Mikkelson
I’m afraid, my blue-skinned friend - that matters of religion are absolute. True believers cannot be reasoned with. You either agree with their beliefs or you accept that you will be in eternal conflict with them.’"~Saul KarzaDeathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage - Martyn Stanley
Coaching is the universal to connect with people, helping them to develop a new perspective, while expanding their inner beliefs and boundaries, equipping them to become the best version of themselves. - Farshad Asl
I’m afraid, my blue-skinned friend - that matters of religion are absolute. True believers cannot be reasoned with. You either agree with their beliefs or you accept that you will be in eternal conflict with them.(Deathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage) - Martyn Stanley
t takes great courage to stand up against your fixed, false beliefs. - Debasish Mridha
You can't change our world without first changing our thoughts and beliefs. - Debasish Mridha
Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts. - Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality. - Steve Maraboli
Beliefs are often imposed or spontaneously created thoughts that cannot be supported by facts. - Debasish Mridha
An audience that is unwilling to suspend its own presuppositions and biases while considering an opposed (or even unopposed) viewpoint not only frustrates the function of extended argument but effectively denies its own beliefs a rational basis. - Vincent E. Barry
Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world. - Abraham Kuyper
A terrorist is the most foolish and naïve. He is drunk with fixed false beliefs that killing his neighbors will result in going to heaven. - Debasish Mridha
True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible. - Enza Vita
if there are many choices of 3.4 billion women/men in this world (2010 statistic: 65% from overall population or 2,2 billion are 15-64 years old women/men) , why should be narrowed with only view to the same beliefs ? - cG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=
There is no excuse for being derogatory or dismissive about other's beliefs, paths, choices. Everyone is where they need to be at the right time to learn the right things for them and their personal journey through life. - Jay Woodman
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs? - Masashi Kishimoto
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. - Mark Twain
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option. - P.Z. Myers
I don't assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be manic or marvelous just like me - Stanley Victor Paskavich
If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially. - Kelle Sparta
When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition. - Debasish Mridha
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate. - Octavio Paz
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease. - Debasish Mridha
We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs. - Debasish Mridha
There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted norms. In this kind of climate, even the mildest questions sound like heresy, and the outcome is intolerance of other people’s beliefs, ideas, actions and freedoms. - Keith Harmon
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true. - Walt Disney
I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are. - Irwin Kula
We look into our hearts and see objectivity; we look into our minds and see rationality; we look into our beliefs and see reality. - Kathryn Schulz
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. - Sam Harris
Retaining our capacity for reasonis common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment. - H.E. Davey
While your beliefs may change over time, the truth will not - Lenon Honor
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.
Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The bulk of suffering does not stem from 'dreadful' experiences but rather from frightening beliefs. - Abraham Low
Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage. - Debasish Mridha
The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government. - William O. Douglas
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. - Henry David Thoreau
Your beliefs are decisions; they are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices. - Roy T. Bennett
Your beliefs create your world. - Jo Ana Starr
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. - Nathaniel Branden
My exploration of the biology of beliefs has taught me universal tolerance. - Abhijit Naskar
Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small. - Vironika Tugaleva
Champions learn how to develop empowering beliefs and invest a substantial amount of time solidifying those beliefs, mostly through their own self-talk. - Steve Siebold
A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito - Nobuhiro Watsuki
I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond - Carolyn Jessop
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. - D. H. Lawrence
Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception. - Debasish Mridha
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. - Louise Erdrich
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. - Mark Twain
If we don't currently have what we so desire, then we must become a different person. Beliefs and thought patterns is the road to victory. - Matthew Donnelly
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation. - Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell
Before believing something, check the facts. False beliefs can infect and affect the mind. - Debasish Mridha
If you live with the limited beliefs of your mind, you cannot see life, beyond the physical existence, while in reality, the life happens at a much deeper level. - Roshan Sharma
The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation. - Sam Harris
End the eternal battle of beliefs once and for all. If you are a believer, love your fellow non-believer for all the good things he or she has to offer. And if you are an atheist, then love your fellow believer for all the positivity he or she possesses. - Abhijit Naskar
I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs. - Johann Hari
Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe. - Abhijit Naskar
when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comesthe necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older. - Derric Yuh Ndim
I love belief it can move the pallet on a Ouija board or put a man into space. The problem that we have is the wrong beliefs we can't erase. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Life is about the journey, not the destination. As long as we persevere in mindful thinking, beliefs and actions, our internal compass will point us towards true-self each step of the way. - Glenn A. Maltais
Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe. - Amit Kalantri
Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices. - Roy T. Bennett
Empowering beliefs are ideas that launch us forward and help us to become the person we want to be. Empowering beliefs are freeing, encouraging, and inclusive; they nurture and uplift. When we find ourselves harboring a limiting belief, we need to replace it with one that cultivates joy. - Laurie Buchanan PhD
Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. - Mike Rowe
What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter? - Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation. - Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the decisions you make and actions you take today. - Roy T. Bennett
My beliefs are the center of my being. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. - Walter Bagehot
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain - Scott Westerfeld
In the province of the mind what is believed true is true or becomes true within limits to be learned by experience and experiment. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits. - Dr. John Lilly
God wants you to face the reasons why you separate yourself from Him. He will show you what you fear, what you need, and what you desire. He will inventory your beliefs and values, and help you line them up with His truth. - Michael Barbarulo
God has permitted the great lie for a short time only. That time is now coming to an end. Believers in the lie! You have been raised on the milk of your concrete beliefs. Now it is time for you to be weaned to partake of the solid food of the new age, the "New World Order. - Compton Gage
We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul. - Vironika Tugaleva
We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we're just floating particles moving through the space time continuum. - Solange nicole
Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an asshole."[] Jim C. Hines - Blog post of July 26, 2011
Perspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn. - Alexis Hurley
Liberate yourself from unconstructive beliefs forced upon you by others for imprisonment sake. Allow into this space a new-fangled reality which warrant viewpoints increasing a new understanding. - Michaelson Williams
The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego. - Carol Anthony
Act, not for the results, but for the action.Lead, not for the mission, but for the vision. See, not through your beliefs, but through the eyes.Trust, not because of your beliefs, but because of truth. Think before you do and do because it is right. - Debasish Mridha
In our external world we create and attract with our beliefs, thoughts, emotions and perceptions. - Debasish Mridha
My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave. - Stonewall Jackson
Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won’t make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. - Richard M. Rorty
Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it. - Debasish Mridha
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind) - Rachel Naomi Remen
Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires, but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs. - Christopher Babson
Spiritual maturity keeps you from being easily swayed in your beliefs - Jim George
The very thought of such people’s intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage. - Haruki Murakami
Be courageous, but humble,passionate, but simple,have beliefs, but be flexible. - Debasish Mridha
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your identity & life passion/purpose in the context of your beliefs determine your vision, your vision determines your mission, your mission determines your KRAs, your KRAs determine your goals, your goals determine your thoughts, and your thoughts determine your life! ~ gfp '42© - Gary Patton
Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one. - Greta Christina
Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Stop nourishing other people’s ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it. - Abhijit Naskar
Most of us are living in a prison of our fixed, false beliefs and never try to find the door to get out to see and feel the beauty of life, even when the door is wide open and welcoming. - Debasish Mridha
...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs. - Arthur Keith
A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard. - Caitlin Doughty
But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized. - Drew Hayden Taylor
Contrary to your beliefs, I am stronger then what you give me credit for, but the real lesson here is the knowledge to know I don't owe you an explanation to anything. - Nikki Rowe
I am Happy. I love colorful and cute stuffs. Whole my life is all about being happy and to stay positive in my beliefs. I love to inspire people and let them know more about themselves. - Diana Rose Morcilla
Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. - Stefan Molyneux
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you. - Timothy J. Keller
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. - David Mitchell
Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs. - Joan Tollifson
Escape from the cage of beliefs Spread the wings of love, Now fly in your sky of imagination. - Debasish Mridha
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs. - Sunday Adelaja
We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc. - Julian Huxley
The sky is not your limit...your beliefs are. - Lorri Faye
I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them. - Trevor Driggers
Awaiting within us is something beyond our thoughts and beliefs. - Tyler J. Hebert
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. - Richard Dawkins
Beliefs are many but truth is one. - Debasish Mridha
Beliefs can be dangerous viruses that can infect and affect a whole society, a country, and even a whole world. - Debasish Mridha
Our beliefs are the lens through which we see the world. They are the glasses we put on in the morning, which provide the patterns we see. As we become more self-aware, we can identify our patterns, and then, to the extent we desire, change our lenses. - Patrick Sweeney
I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it! - Paul Lee
Everyone will not favor you or respect your beliefs, passion and purpose--so be it. But do not allow the views of others to hinder your quest. Remain steadfast. - Terry A. O'Neal
...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition. - Evan D.G. Fraser
We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And that is a cost benefit analysis we all make and we keep satisfying ourselves with the status quo of situations. - M.F. Moonzajer
There's enough of everything to go around for everybody but not without awareness and positive beliefs about abundance. - Mayra Mejia
Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope. - Nadia Hashimi
I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life. - Anna Quindlen
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition. - Bertrand Russell
I trust in reality more than beliefs, one is taught and the later is experienced. - Wali
Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony. - F. David Peat
Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race. - Ketan Waghmare
As the caterpillar undergoes transformation and emerges as a butterfly; likewise, character undergoes transformation through experiences, aspirations and beliefs. How will you emerge? - Lorna Jackie Wilson
You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother? - Shannon L. Alder
There is a big difference between ideas and beliefs. Ideas live above your nose. Beliefs make it all the way to your toes.
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world. - Sam Harris
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. - Thomas Henry Huxley
While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one’s self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so. - Stephen Richards
It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs. - Jim George
If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs. - Assegid Habtewold
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. - Ronald Reagan
A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be to understand the other person's opinions and help them understand your own. - Emily Eskowich
Beliefs that are good promote your potential and enhance your unique special qualities. - Deborah Day
There is nothing sacred about any beliefs! They are all the apparent inventions of human mind! Beliefs of the billions have nothing to do with the truth! If the world can stop deceiving itself, there will emerge a new world, a world that represents the truth! - Mehmet Murat ildan
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
... Science... denude(s) all religious beliefs... denigrating them as irrational forms of superstition or myth regardless of their intrinsic rationality or value. - Nicolas Gane
Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams. - David Arenson
Have faith in your beliefs - Michael Christos Zeis
You are nothing but your desires, dreams, thoughts, and beliefs - Debasish Mridha
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