Belief Quotes
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
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Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.
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Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.
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Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
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Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.
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But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
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Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
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My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
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I believe the Congress - as a coequal branch of government - must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.
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Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway.
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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.
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The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.
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It’s hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you’re scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.
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You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world
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It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
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[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
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I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
