Beliefs Quotes

We only give credence to that which we can prove exists. Since we cannot find evidence that gods, mi...

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ...

The amount of evidence and its quality do not count for much, because poor evidence can make a very ...

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, w...

People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live i...

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about peopl...

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds m...

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably fal...

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of reli...

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spir...

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the sp...

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civiliz...

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. The...

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and a...

It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make yo...

The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave...

He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, f...

In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He ...

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the...

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the in...

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understo...

It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibl...

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation ...

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my vi...

I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different y...

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that yo...

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously i...

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously i...

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon t...

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He h...

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patt...

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their bel...

They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people...

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pr...

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of...

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay yo...

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

The notion that the only way you can critically engage with a person’s ideas is to take a shot at th...

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not t...

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate inform...

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-...

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who beli...

I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system th...

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see,...

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...

In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed q...

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe i...

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take respo...

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs again...

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil ...

...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the ...

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion ...

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the...

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned a...

Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...

Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I w...

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, bu...

There is no higher authority.

The witch is a dangerous person. Neither his appearance nor his behaviour betray his satanic nature....

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, c...

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortun...

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a...

When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd acco...

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all ...

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

"Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be."

I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He...

However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the mod...

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not ...

...But I do like the idea of household gods--shall we get some? A set of little statues and bring th...

Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, be...

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a...