Quotes on Belief

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature,” Coach Bob declared. “So what?” my father said. “Right!” cried Iowa Bob. “That’s the point: So what?” Thus the family maxim was that an unhappy ending did not undermine a rich and energetic life. This was based on the belief that there were no happy endings.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Belief is the death of intelligence.