QuoteProject
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

Our beliefs are shaped by the opinions we accept and internalize.

This quote by Miguel Angel Ruiz highlights the powerful impact that the opinions of others can have on our own belief systems. When we choose to accept someone else's perspective without question, we effectively agree to it, allowing it to shape our understanding of the world and ourselves. This reveals the importance of critical thinking and discernment in forming our own beliefs.

Themes

BeliefOpinionAgreementPerceptionUnderstanding

In practice

Example use cases

In a discussion about personal growth, one might quote this to emphasize the need for self-reflection on the beliefs we hold.

More from Miguel Angel Ruiz

We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking-we take it personally-then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison in our word. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make assumptions, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.
Miguel Angel RuizRead
...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life
Miguel Angel RuizRead
What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.
Miguel Angel RuizRead
Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.
Miguel Angel RuizRead
When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.
Miguel Angel RuizRead
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Miguel Angel RuizRead

Similar quotes

I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.
Steven ChuRead
No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.
Jerry SpinelliRead
The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.
Oswald ChambersRead
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
Margaret CavendishRead
We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.
RumiRead
Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
Anne LamottRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.