Belief Quotes
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Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
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...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.
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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.
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My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.
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I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.
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With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have therefore adopted the new constitution as a secular state where all religious beliefs will be respected.
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They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
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It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.
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Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.
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Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.
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When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.
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Religions, convictions, philosophies may differ – widely and bitterly; but never, in my belief, should such differences be allowed to assume the personal aspect. Disassociation from people for such reasons is inexcusable; it is representative of bigotry and intolerance.
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Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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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.
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I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.
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You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.
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The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.
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I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.
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I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.
