Belief Quotes
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One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
Bill Crawford
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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.
Heather Matarazzo
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This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.
Adolf Hitler
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Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.
John Stuart Mill
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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.
Henry Louis Gates
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
William James
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I say that they can be solved; there is no problem that cannot be, but faith is necessary. Think of the faith I had to have eighteen years ago, a single man on a lonely path. Yet I have come to leadership of the German people... Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. Nothing can make me change my own belief.
Adolf Hitler
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For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
William Peter Blatty
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
Francis Spufford
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Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.
Kay Warren
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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.
Hugo Black
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There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.
Terence McKenna
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Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
Ally Carter
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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.
Carol Plum-Ucci
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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.
Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
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The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then the mind quickly solidifies that view, resisting any future modification.
Charles Hugh Smith
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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.
Erol Alkan
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With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.
Georges St-Pierre
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Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
George Eliot
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This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
Alberto Moravia
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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.
Sarah Vowell