Belief Quotes
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The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.
Herbert Spencer -
If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.
Abraham Lincoln
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Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.
Richard Scott Bakker -
You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.
Brian Tracy -
We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.
A.S.A. Harrison -
And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.
Patrick Ness -
As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.
William H. Gass
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I have found that great people do have in common an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have great determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Yousuf Karsh -
The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.
Marc Benioff -
The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.
Adam Gollner -
Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.
Andrew Bernstein -
It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
William Jennings Bryan
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You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.
The Ultimate Warrior -
The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil -
The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.
Morgan Freeman -
Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.
Brian Tracy -
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.
George Gilder -
I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.
Jack Layton
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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.
William James -
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost -
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
Pyotr Ouspensky -
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
T. H. White