Explore Quotes on Belief

I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls. But the suffering of one single child, or more likely, millions is evidence against that belief. The one question I want to ask god: how do you explain or justify the suffering of a child?

We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

It gives the guys confidence and self-belief. Two or three years ago I think we would have lost it. The confidence that we have, we can actually nail it.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values - our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.

The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Opportunity has power over all things.

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.