Belief Quotes

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Belief creates the actual fact.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

I have a very strong belief in God.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you that it doesn't. It's not something that has to be believed. It is a 'fact.'

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.