The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it. ~By Bryant H. McGill ~
An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain? ~By Dee Hock ~
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. ~By Janet Jackson ~
Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. ~By E. O. Wilson ~
I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. ~By Jesse Ventura ~
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet. ~By Robert Redford ~
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. ~By Svetlana Alliluyeva ~
It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him. ~By Robert Teeter ~
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. ~By Francis Wright ~
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. ~By Barbara Jordan ~
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief . ~By Sigmund Freud ~
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything. ~By Dave Winer ~
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it. ~By Diane Feinstein ~
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. ~By Ellen G. White ~
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. ~By Charlotte Bronte ~
Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation. ~By Emile Lahud ~
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny. ~By John Ensign ~
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people. ~By Howard Dean ~
'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace. ~By Ahmet Necdet Sezner ~
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. ~By John Keegan ~
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die. ~By David Wilkerson ~
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live. ~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. ~By Cat Stevens ~
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. ~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. ~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. ~By Ralph Fiennes ~
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. ~By King Hussein I ~
In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things. ~By E. Stanley Jones ~
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life. ~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. ~By Tom Allen ~
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. ~By Kent Nerburn ~
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. ~By Ernest Holmes ~
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. ~By Charles W. Eliot ~
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. ~By Alan Watts ~
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness. ~By Sri Chinmoy ~
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. ~By Mortimer Adler ~
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. ~By Maxwell Maltz ~
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. ~By Jose Bergamin ~
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. ~By Cecil Beaton ~
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. ~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. ~By Walter Gilbert ~
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. ~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. ~By Bob Ney ~
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ~By Christopher Hampton ~
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. ~By Herbert Read ~
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner. ~By Ronald Ross ~
Belief creates the actual fact. ~By William James ~
It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole. ~By Spencer Bachus ~
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave. ~By Mark Ruffalo ~
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense. ~By Daryl Hannah ~
Belief is thought at rest. ~By Larry Harvey ~
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values. ~By Winthrop Rockefeller ~
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. ~By Robert Wilson Lynd ~
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. ~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another. ~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ~By Johann G. Hamann ~
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness. ~By Tran Duc Luong ~
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ~By Robertson Davies ~
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated. ~By Jena Malone ~
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying. ~By King Hussein ~
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. ~By Denis Waitley ~
You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. ~By Jimmy Carter ~
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. ~By William Ralph Inge ~
There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor. ~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit. ~By Charles Francis Richter ~
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief. ~By Nick Cave ~
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something. ~By Rush Limbaugh ~
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. ~By Carl Levin ~
Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be. ~By Joy Page ~
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. ~By Dennis Prager ~
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. ~By Richard Dawkins ~
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things. ~By Jensen Ackles ~
I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times. ~By Mukesh Ambani ~
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. ~By Marianne Moore ~
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. ~By Clarence Darrow ~
We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals. ~By Bill Richardson ~
When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs. ~By Cindy Crawford ~
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. ~By George Eliot ~
American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just. ~By Ginny B. Waite ~
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. ~By Bryan Magee ~
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own. ~By Anthony Collins ~
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. ~By Cyril Connolly ~
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. ~By Max Born ~
It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order. ~By Asa Gray ~
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. ~By Jonathan Lethem ~
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. ~By Frances Wright ~
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. ~By Henry Miller ~
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit. ~By Andrei Sakharov ~
We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before. ~By Jane D. Hull ~
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. ~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. ~By Jean Vanier ~
Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace. ~By Bob Graham ~
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. ~By Jonathan Swift ~
But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction. ~By David Plouffe ~
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